Consequences of shoaling of the Central American Seaway determined from modeling Nd isotopes

Paleoceanography

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 176-189

  Sepulchre, P ^a   Arsouze, T ^a,b   Donnadieu, Y ^a   Dutay, J C ^a   Jaramillo, C ^c   Le Bras, J ^a   Martin, E ^d   Montes, C ^e   Waite, A J ^d  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b ENSTA PARISTECH   (France)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Central American Seaway; climate modelling; epsilon neodymium; Miocene; Nd isotopes; Panama closure

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; FOSSIL RECORD; GEOLOGICAL SURVEY; GLOBAL CLIMATE; INFLOW; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MIOCENE; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; OUTFLOW; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; SILL; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TOOTH;

CENTRAL AMERICA;

EID: 84895418212     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: 19449186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013PA002501     Document Type: Article

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