Middle Eocene to Late Oligocene Antarctic glaciation/deglaciation and Southern Ocean productivity

Paleoceanography

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 223-237

  Villa, Giuliana ^a   Fioroni, Chiara ^b   Persico, Davide ^a   Roberts, Andrew P ^c   Florindo, Fabio ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Calcareous Nannofossils; Environmental Magnetism; Eocene Oligocene; Paleoceanography; Paleoecology; Southern Ocean

Indexed keywords

COCCOLITH; COOLING; DEGLACIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EOCENE-OLIGOCENE BOUNDARY; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; GLACIATION; ICE SHEET; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; NANOFOSSIL; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WARMING;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HAPTOPHYCEAE;

EID: 84896423929     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: 19449186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013PA002518     Document Type: Article

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