Catastrophic extinction of Caribbean rudist bivalves at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary

Geology

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 999-1002

  Steuber, Thomas ^a   Mitchell, Simon F ^b   Buhl, Dieter ^a   Gunter, Gavin ^b   Kasper, Haino U ^c  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chemostratigraphy,87Sr 86Sr; Cretaceous tertiary boundary; Jamaica; Maastrichian; Rudists

Indexed keywords

CATASTROPHIC;

CALCITE; ISOTOPES; LIMESTONE; STRONTIUM;

GEOLOGY;

CATASTROPHIC EVENT; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; EXTINCTION; MAASTRICHTIAN; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE;

JAMAICA;

EID: 2242459519     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(2002)030<0999:CEOCRB>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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