Foraminiferal turnover across the Eocene-Oligocene transition at Fuente Caldera, southern Spain: No cause-effect relationship between meteorite impacts and extinctions

Marine Micropaleontology

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 270-286

  Molina, Eustoquio ^a   Gonzalvo, Concepción ^a   Ortiz, Silvia ^a   Cruz, Luis E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD INDUSTRIAL DE SANTANDER   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Eocene; Extinction; Foraminifera; Impact; Ni spinel

Indexed keywords

EOCENE-OLIGOCENE BOUNDARY; FORAMINIFERA; IMPACT STRUCTURE; METEORITE; TURNOVER;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

CIBICIDOIDES; FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 32344443957     PISSN: 03778398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marmicro.2005.11.006     Document Type: Article

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