Stepwise transition from the Eocene greenhouse to the Oligocene icehouse
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Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., Troy, New York 12180, USA Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA Institute of Marine and Coastal Science, Rutgers University, 71 Dudley Road, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901, USA Department of Geology and Geophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77840, USA Department of Geological Sciences, 1272 University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403-1272, USA *e-mail: [email protected]
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