Onset of the mid-Cretaceous greenhouse in the Barremian-Aptian: Igneous events and the biological, sedimentary, and geochemical responses

Paleoceanography

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 663-678

  Larson, Roger L ^a   Erba, Elisabetta ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APTIAN; BARREMIAN; CRETACEOUS; PALEOCLIMATE; TECTONICS; VOLCANISM;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033512601     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999PA900040     Document Type: Article

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