A potential biomarker for the Permian-Triassic ecological crisis

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 236, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 315-321

  Grice, Kliti ^a   Twitchett, Richard J ^b,c   Alexander, Robert ^a   Foster, Clinton B ^d   Looy, Cindy ^e  

^a Curtin University of Technology Perth Centre for Applied Organic Geochemistry   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^d Petroleum and Marine Division   (Australia)

^e DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomarkers; Extinction; Permian; Triassic

Indexed keywords

EXTINCTION INTERVALS; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; PERMIAN-TRIASSIC (P-TR) MARINE SECTION; SPINOSE ACRITARCHS;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HYDROCARBONS; MARINE APPLICATIONS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

BIOMARKERS;

BIOMARKER; MASS EXTINCTION; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PERMIAN-TRIASSIC BOUNDARY;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; GREENLAND; WORLD;

ACRITARCHA; MICRHYSTRIDIUM;

EID: 22144443114     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.05.008     Document Type: Article

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