Calcareous nannoplankton productivity and succession across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in the Pacific (DSDP Site 465) and Atlantic (DSDP Site 527) Oceans

Cretaceous Research

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 451-477

  Henriksson, Anders S ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Accumulation rates; Coccoliths; Cretaceous; Cretaceous Tertiary boundary; Extinction; Nannofossils; Nannoplankton; Productivity

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATE; CALCAREOUS NANNOFOSSIL; COCCOLITH; CRETACEOUS/TERTIARY BOUNDARY; EXTINCTION; NANNOPLANKTON; PALAEOPRODUCTIVITY; PRODUCTIVITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; COCCOLITH; CRETACEOUS; DANIAN; DEEP SEA; DRILL; FLORA; LEG; MAASTRICHTIAN; NANNOFOSSIL; PACIFIC OCEAN; PRODUCTIVITY; SEA; SPECIES;

ATLANTIC, WALVIS RIDGE, DSDP SITE 527; PACIFIC, HESS RISE, DSDP SITE 465;

EID: 0029809259     PISSN: 01956671     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cres.1996.0028     Document Type: Article

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