Late Maastrichtian and K/T paleoenvironment of the eastern Tethys (Israel): Mineralogy, trace and platinum group elements, biostratigraphy and faunal turnovers

Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France

Volumn 176, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 37-55

  Adatte, Thierry ^a   Keller, Gerta ^b   Stüben, Doris ^c   Harting, Markus ^c   Kramar, Utz ^c   Stinnesbeck, Wolfgang ^c   Abramovich, Sigal ^d   Benjamini, Chaim ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^d BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Biostratigraphy; Chemostratigraphy; Clay mineralogy; Cretaceous Tertiary Boundary; Impact; Iridium; Israel; Paleoclimate and sea level fluctuations; Volcanism

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; IRIDIUM; MAASTRICHTIAN; PALEOCLIMATE; PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENT; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TETHYS; VOLCANISM;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST; WORLD;

EID: 15044362467     PISSN: 00379409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/176.1.37     Document Type: Article

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