Orbitally induced climate and geochemical variability across the Oligocene/Miocene boundary
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Orbitally induced climate and geochemical variability across the Oligocene/Miocene boundary
To assess the influence of orbital-scale variations on late Oligocene to early Miocene climate and ocean chemistry, high-resolution (~5 kyr) benthic foraminiferal carbon and oxygen isotope and percent coarse fraction time series were constructed for Ocean Drilling Program site 929 on Ceara Rise in the western equatorial Atlantic. These time series exhibit pervasive lowto high-frequency variabil...
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عنوان ژورنال: Paleoceanography
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0883-8305
DOI: 10.1029/1999pa000443