Latest Paleocene benthic foraminiferal extinction and environmental changes at Tawanui, New Zealand

Paleoceanography

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 447-465

  Kaiho, Kunio ^a   Arinobu, Tetsuya ^b   Ishiwatari, Ryoshi ^b   Morgans, Hugh E G ^c   Okada, Hisatake ^d   Takeda, Nobuyori ^e   Tazaki, Kazue ^f   Zhou, Gouping ^f   Kajiwara, Yoshimichi ^g   Matsumoto, Ryo ^h   Hirai, Akio ⁱ   Niitsuma, Nobuaki ^j   Wada, Hideki ^j  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^d HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e Japex Research Center   (Japan)

^f KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

ⁱ INPEX CORPORATION   (Japan)

^j SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTINCTION; FORAMINIFERA; PALAEOCENE; PALAEOCLIMATE; PALAEOENVIRONMENT;

NEW ZEALAND, NORTH ISLAND, WELLINGTON, TAWANUI;

EID: 0030482670     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: 19449186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96PA01021     Document Type: Article

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