Cretaceous Tertiary phenomena in the context of seafloor rearrangements and P(CO2) fluctuations over the past 100 m.y.

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 973-994

  Liu, Y G ^a,b   Schmitt, R A ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Sanitation and Radiation Laboratory ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOLIDE IMPACT HYPOTHESIS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBONATE; CERIUM ANOMALY; CRETACEOUS/TERTIARY BOUNDARY; REE; SEAWATER; VOLCANISM HYPOTHESIS;

EID: 0029730278     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0016-7037(95)00453-X     Document Type: Article

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