Causes and consequences of extreme Permo-Triassic warming to globally equable climate and relation to the Permo-Triassic extinction and recovery

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 203, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 207-237

  Kidder, David L ^a   Worsley, Thomas R ^a  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anoxia; Greenhouse; Permian Triassic extinction; Storms; Warm saline bottom water

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; EXTINCTION; PERMIAN; TRIASSIC; WARMING;

EID: 1242322144     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(03)00667-9     Document Type: Article

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