Marine biodiversity through the Late Cenomanian-Early Turonian: Palaeoceanographic controls and sequence stratigraphic biases

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 157, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 745-757

  Gale, A S ^a,b   Smith, A B ^b   Monks, N E A ^b   Young, J A ^b   Howard, A ^b   Wray, D S ^a   Huggett, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anoxia; Cretaceous; Diversity; Palaeoenvironment; Sequence stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BIODIVERSITY; CENOMANIAN-TURONIAN BOUNDARY; CRETACEOUS; EXTINCTION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MASS EXTINCTION; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

EUROPE;

EID: 0033947845     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/jgs.157.4.745     Document Type: Article

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