Middle Miocene climate cooling linked to intensifi cation of eastern equatorial Pacifi c upwelling

Geology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 19-22

  Holbourn, Ann ^a   Kuhnt, Wolfgang ^a   Lyle, Mitch ^b   Schneider, Leah ^b   Romero, Oscar ^c   Andersen, Nils ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO ANDALUZ DE CIENCIAS DE LA TIERRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CARBONATE COMPENSATION DEPTHS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CLIMATE VARIATION; INTEGRATED OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAMS; MARINE PRODUCTIVITY; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; STABLE ISOTOPE DATA; EASTERN EQUATORIAL PACIFIC;

CARBONATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ISOTOPES; PRODUCTIVITY;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ACCUMULATION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBONATE; CENOZOIC; CLIMATE VARIATION; COOLING; DISSOLUTION; MIOCENE; OPAL; PALEOCLIMATE; SILICA; STABLE ISOTOPE; UPWELLING; X-RAY FLUORESCENCE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; ICE SHEET; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM;

ANTARCTICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 84891678600     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G34890.1     Document Type: Article

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