Persistence of carbon release events through the peak of early Eocene global warmth

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 748-751

  Turner, Sandra Kirtland ^a,b   Sexton, Philip F ^c   Charles, Christopher D ^b   Norris, Richard D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBONATE SEDIMENT; EOCENE; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GAS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; PALEOCENE; PALEOCENE-EOCENE BOUNDARY; PERSISTENCE; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 84909999932     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/NGEO2240     Document Type: Article

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