Decline of the Maastrichtian pelagic ecosystem based on planktic foraminifera assemblage change: Implication for the terminal Cretaceous faunal crisis

Geology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 63-66

  Abramovich, Sigal ^a   Almogi Labin, Ahuva ^b   Benjamini, Chaim ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS;

BOUNDARY CRISIS; DOMINANT SPECIES; FORAMINIFERAL ASSEMBLAGES; PALEO-ENVIRONMENT; PELAGIC ECOSYSTEM; PELAGIC ENVIRONMENT; PLANKTIC FORAMINIFERA; PLANKTIC FORAMINIFERA SPECIES; HIGH RESOLUTION; MULTIPLE STRESS; PALAEOENVIRONMENT;

BLOOMS (METAL);

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; MAASTRICHTIAN; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PELAGIC ECOSYSTEM; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; CRETACEOUS/TERTIARY BOUNDARY; EXTINCTION; FORAMINIFERA;

ISRAEL; NEGEV; SOUTHERN DISTRICT; NEGEV DESERT; ZIN VALLEY;

EID: 0031972125     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1998)026<0063:DOTMPE>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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