Quantification and propagation of errors when converting vertebrate biomineral oxygen isotope data to temperature for palaeoclimate reconstruction

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 412, Issue , 2014, Pages 99-107

  Pryor, Alexander J E ^a   Stevens, Rhiannon E ^a   O'Connell, Tamsin C ^a   Lister, John R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Calibration; Enamel; Palaeoclimate; Phosphate; Regression; Temperature

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ENAMEL; EOCENE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PHOSPHATE; RAINFALL; SPREADSHEET; VERTEBRATE;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84906689329     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.07.003     Document Type: Article

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