Warm Middle Jurassic–Early Cretaceous high-latitude sea-surface temperatures from the Southern Ocean

Although a division of the Phanerozoic climatic modes of the Earth into "greenhouse" and "icehouse" phases is widely accepted, whether or not polar ice developed during the relatively warm Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods is still under debate. In particular, there is a range of i...

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Main Authors: H. C. Jenkyns, L. Schouten-Huibers, S. Schouten, J. S. Sinninghe Damsté
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2012-02-01
Series:Climate of the Past
Online Access:http://www.clim-past.net/8/215/2012/cp-8-215-2012.pdf