Relationships between bacterial-algal proliferating and mass extinction in the Late Devonian Frasnian-Famennian transition: Enlightening from carbon isotopes and molecular fossils

Science in China, Series D: Earth Sciences

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1656-1665

  Gong, Yiming ^a,b   Xu, Ran ^a   Tang, Zhongdao ^a   Si, Yuanlan ^c   Li, Baohua ^d  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b HENAN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SOUTH CENTRAL UNIVERSITY FOR NATIONALITIES   (China)

^d TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bacteria algae; Biodiversity; Carbon isotopes; Guangxi; Late Devonian; Mass extinction; Molecular fossils

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; BIODIVERSITY; FOSSIL FUELS; ISOTOPES; PARAFFINS;

CARBON ISOTOPES; MASS EXTINCTION; MOLECULAR FOSSILS;

BACTERIA;

ALGAL BLOOM; BACTERIUM; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CARBON ISOTOPE; EUTROPHICATION; FOSSIL; FRASNIAN-FAMENNIAN BOUNDARY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MASS EXTINCTION; PALEOECOLOGY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GUANGXI ZHUANGZU; GUILIN;

ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SPERMATOPHYTA;

EID: 33845785984     PISSN: 10069313     EISSN: 18622801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1360/02YD0346     Document Type: Article

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