Oceanic primary productivity and dissolved oxygen levels at the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary: Their decrease, subsequent warming, and recovery

Paleoceanography

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 511-524

  Kaiho, Kunio ^a   Kajiwara, Yoshimichi ^b   Tazaki, Kazue ^c   Ueshima, Masato ^c   Takeda, Nobuyori ^d   Kawahata, Hodaka ^e   Arinobu, Tetsuya ^e   Ishiwatari, Ryoshi ^f   Hirai, Akio ^g   Lamolda, Marcos A ^h  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d JAPEX Research Center   (Japan)

^e GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^f TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g INPEX CORPORATION   (Japan)

^h UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATASTROPHIC EVENT; CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MASS EXTINCTION; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PRIMARY PRODUCTION;

EID: 0033388455     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999PA900022     Document Type: Article

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