Paleoenvironmental recovery after the Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary crisis: Evidence from the marine Bidart Section (SW France)

Palaios

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 574-586

  Alegret, Laia ^a   Kaminski, Michael A ^a   Molina, Eustoquio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; FOOD WEB; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; MASS EXTINCTION; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOGENE;

AQUITAINE; BIDART; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; PYRENEES-ATLANTIQUES; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

ABATHOMPHALUS MAYAROENSIS; ASTERIAS; ASTEROIDEA; FORAMINIFERA; GUEMBELITRIA CRETACEA;

EID: 11944259177     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1669/0883-1351(2004)019<0574:PRATPB>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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