Evidence of surface water oligotrophy during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum: Nannofossil assemblage data from Ocean Drilling Program Site 690, Maud Rise, Weddell Sea

Paleoceanography

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 13-1-13-12

  Bralower, Timothy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution; Extinction; Global warming; Nannoplankton; Paleocene eocene thermal maximum; Paleoecology

Indexed keywords

EOCENE; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; NANOPLANKTON; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PALEOCENE; PALEOECOLOGY;

MAUD RISE; WEDDELL SEA;

EID: 0036626335     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001PA000662     Document Type: Article

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