Orbitally tuned timescale and astronomical forcing in the middle Eocene to early Oligocene

Climate of the Past

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 955-973

  Westerhold, T ^a   Rohl U ^a   Palike H ^a   Wilkens, R ^b   Wilson, P A ^c   Acton, G ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; EOCENE-OLIGOCENE BOUNDARY; GEOCHEMICAL METHOD; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 84902278966     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-10-955-2014     Document Type: Article

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