Quantitative palaeoclimate GCM validation: Late Jurassic and mid-Cretaceous case studies

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Received 10 April 1997; mvi tyesrpt acpe 30 April 1997. Sdutig by Gordon Taylor.

1. Palaeoecology Centre, School of Geosciences, The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, BT7 INN, UK (e-mail: g.price,qub.ac.uk)

2Department of Meteorology, The University of Reading, 2 Earley Gate, Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 6A U, UK

3Postgraduate Research Institute for Sedimentology, The University, PO Box 227, Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 6AB, UK