Nannofossil carbonate fluxes during the Early Cretaceous: Phytoplankton response to nutrification episodes, atmospheric CO2, and anoxia

Paleoceanography

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Erba, Elisabetta ^a   Tremolada, Fabrizio ^a  

^a Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra   (Italy)

Author keywords

Early Cretaceous; Global change; Nannofossil fluxes

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE SYSTEM; CRETACEOUS; NANOFOSSIL; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOECOLOGY; PHYTOPLANKTON;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 18344411235     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003PA000884     Document Type: Article

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