A Cenozoic-style scenario for the end-ordovician glaciation

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Ghienne, Jean François ^a   Desrochers, André ^b   Vandenbroucke, Thijs R A ^c   Achab, Aicha ^d   Asselin, Esther ^e   Dabard, Marie Pierre ^f   Farley, Claude ^b   Loi, Alfredo ^g   Paris, Florentin ^f   Wickson, Steven ^b   Veizer, Jan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c UNIV LILLE   (France)

^d CENTRE EAU TERRE ENVIRONNEMENT   (Canada)

^e GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^g Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche e Geologiche   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHRONOLOGY; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CENOZOIC; CORRELATION; ICE SHEET; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOLATITUDE;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; CENOZOIC; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGLACIATION; FLOODING; GLACIATION; HIRNANTIAN; ICE SHEET; INTERGLACIAL; MELTING POINT; ORDOVICIAN; SEA LEVEL; STRATIGRAPHY;

EID: 84904908399     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5485     Document Type: Article

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