The Paleocene-Eocene transition at Mead Stream, New Zealand: A southern Pacific record of early Cenozoic global change

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 215, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 313-343

  Hollis, Christopher J ^a   Dickens, Gerald R ^b   Field, Bradley D ^a   Jones, Craig M ^a   Percy Strong, C ^a  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

calcareous nannofossils; carbon isotopes; foraminifera; Radiolaria; Southwest Pacific

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; FORAMINIFERA; GLOBAL CHANGE; PALEOCENE-EOCENE BOUNDARY; RADIOLARIA;

AUSTRALASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; MARLBOROUGH; MEAD STREAM; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND; WORLD;

ARANEUS; DISCOASTER; FORAMINIFERA; RADIOLARIA (PROTOZOANS);

EID: 10344238101     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2004.09.011     Document Type: Article

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