Oligotrophic oceans and minimalist organisms: Collapse of the Maastrichtian marine ecosystem and paleocene recovery in the Cretaceous-Tertiary sequence of New Jersey

Geologie en Mijnbouw/Netherlands Journal of Geosciences

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 225-231

  Gallagher, W B ^a,b  

^a New Jersey State Museum   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Danian; Faunal assemblages; K T boundary; Maastrichtian; New Jersey

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; MAASTRICHTIAN; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MASS EXTINCTION; PALEOCENE; RECOVERY;

ATLANTIC COASTAL PLAIN; NEW JERSEY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0242626515     PISSN: 00167746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016774600020813     Document Type: Article

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