Sudden spreading of corrosive bottom water during the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 458-461

  Alexander, Kaitlin ^a,b   Meissner, Katrin J ^a,b   Bralower, Timothy J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDIFICATION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; BOTTOM WATER; CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE MODELING; DEEP WATER; DISSOLUTION; EOCENE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; PALEOCENE; PALEOCENE-EOCENE BOUNDARY; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; THERMAL CONVECTION; WATER COLUMN;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH); CARIBBEAN SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84987784910     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/NGEO2430     Document Type: Article

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