High-resolution late Maastrichtian-early Danian oceanic 87Sr/86Sr record: Implications for Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary events

Geology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 347-350

  Vonhof, H B ^a   Smit, J ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID RAIN;

CHICXULUB; CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; DIAGENETICS; HIGH RESOLUTION; RAIN LEACHING; REFERENCE CURVES; SOIL LEACHING; SURFACE ROCKS;

LEACHING;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CRETACEOUS-PALEOGENE BOUNDARY; DANIAN; DIAGENESIS; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MAASTRICHTIAN; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; SEAWATER; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; VAPORIZATION; CRETACEOUS/TERTIARY BOUNDARY;

BAY OF CAMPECHE; CHICXULUB CRATER; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; YUCATAN; FRANCE; TUNISIA;

EID: 0030793744     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1997)025<0347:HRLMED>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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