Short-term environmental changes in the Cretaceous Tethyan Ocean: Micropalaeontological evidence from the Early Albian Oceanic Anoxic Event 1b

Terra Nova

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 14-19

  Herrle, J O ^a   Pross, J ^a   Friedrich, O ^a   Hemleben, Ch ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBIAN; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BLACK SHALE; CRETACEOUS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOPRODUCTIVITY; TETHYS;

EID: 0037329696     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3121.2003.00448.x     Document Type: Article

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