Evidence for global cooling in the Late Cretaceous

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Linnert, Christian ^a   Robinson, Stuart A ^b   Lees, Jackie A ^a   Bown, Paul R ^a   Pérez Rodríguez, Irene ^c   Petrizzo, Maria Rose ^d   Falzoni, Francesca ^d   Littler, Kate ^a   Arz, José Antonio ^c   Russell, Ernest E ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^e MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM WATER; CAMPANIAN; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE VARIATION; COOLING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; MAASTRICHTIAN; PALEOATMOSPHERE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STRATIGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CAMPANIAN; CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; CLIMATE; COOLING; GLOBAL COOLING; GREENHOUSE; LATITUDE; MAASTRICHTIAN; SEDIMENT; UPPER CRETACEOUS; WARMING; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84902828002     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5194     Document Type: Article

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