The late Ordovician mass-extinction

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 29, Issue , 2001, Pages 331-364

  Sheehan, P M ^a  

^a MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecologic evolutionary unit; Evolutionary recovery; Extinction event; Glaciation; Silurian

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; GLACIERS; TOXIC MATERIALS;

EPICONTINENTAL SEAWAYS;

EARTH SCIENCES;

EVOLUTION; GLACIATION; MASS EXTINCTION; ORDOVICIAN; SILURIAN;

EID: 0034983332     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.earth.29.1.331     Document Type: Article

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