Differential severity of Permian-Triassic environmental changes on Tethyan shallow-water carbonate platforms

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 55, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 209-235

  Weidlich, Oliver ^a   Bernecker, Michaela ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

carbonate platform; mass extinctions; Permian; recovery; Tethys; Triassic

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BIOCLASTIC ROCK; BIVALVE; CARBONATE PLATFORM; CLASTIC SEDIMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; LIMESTONE; MASS EXTINCTION; MICROBIALITE; PERMIAN; PERMIAN-TRIASSIC BOUNDARY; RECORD; SEAFLOOR; SEDIMENTATION; SHALLOW WATER; TETHYS; TRIASSIC;

ANISIA; ANTHOZOA; BIVALVIA; BRYOZOA; CRINOIDEA; FORAMINIFERA; PELMATOZOA; RADIOLARIA (PROTOZOANS);

EID: 33845584919     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2006.06.014     Document Type: Article

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