A stable isotope stratigraphy for the Axel Heiberg Fossil Forest and its application to Eocene climate

• Main Author: Byrne, Monica C. (Monica Catherine)
• Other Authors: Roger Summons and Julian Sachs., Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2005
• Subjects: Earth; Atmospheric; and Planetary Sciences; Nunavut; Canada; Heiberg; Axel Heiberg Island; Methane hydrate
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/33941

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, 2005. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 96-107). The Eocene era was a warm, climatically dynamic transitional period between the Paleocene greenhouse world and the Oligocene icehouse...