The timing of paleoenvironmental change and cause-and-effect relationships during the early Jurassic mass extinction in Europe

American Journal of Science

Volumn 305, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1014-1032

  Wignall, Paul B ^a   Newton, Robert J ^a   Little, Crispin T S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOXIA; BENTHOS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FOSSIL RECORD; GAS HYDRATE; GLOBAL WARMING; JURASSIC; MASS EXTINCTION; PALEOENVIRONMENT; TRANSGRESSION;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; YORKSHIRE;

EID: 33744958626     PISSN: 00029599     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2475/ajs.305.10.1014     Document Type: Article

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