Deccan traps mantle degassing in the terminal Cretaceous marine extinctions

Cretaceous Research

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1985, Pages 235-259

  McLean, Dewey M ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

"Greenhouse." India; "Strangelove" ocean; Asteroid; CO2; Coccolithophorids; Cretaceous; Deccan Traps; Flood basalts; Foraminifera; Hot spots; Iridium; Mantle degassing; Marine extinctions; Mixed layer; Plate tectonics; Williams Riley pump

Indexed keywords

ASTEROID; COCCOLITHOPHORIDS; CRETACEOUS; DECCAN TRAPS; FLOOD BASALTS; FORAMINIFERA; GREENHOUSE; HOT SPOTS; INDIA; IRIDIUM; MANTLE DEGASSING; MARINE EXTINCTIONS; MIXED LAYER; PLATE TECTONICS; STRANGELOVE OCEAN; WILLIAMS RILEY PUMP;

EID: 0022211694     PISSN: 01956671     EISSN: 1095998X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0195-6671(85)90048-5     Document Type: Article

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