Synchrony between the Central Atlantic magmatic province and the Triassic-Jurassic mass-extinction event?

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 244, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 345-367

  Whiteside, Jessica H ^a   Olsen, Paul E ^b   Kent, Dennis V ^b,c   Fowell, Sarah J ^d   Et Touhami, Mohammed ^e  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^e FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Central Atlantic magmatic province; Jurassic; Magnetostratigraphy; Mass extinction; Triassic; Volcanism

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CARBON CYCLE; CYCLOSTRATIGRAPHY; EPISODIC EVENT; FLOOD BASALT; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; JURASSIC; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MAGNETIC REVERSAL; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; MASS EXTINCTION; MILANKOVITCH CYCLE; PALEOMAGNETISM; PALYNOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; SYNCHRONY; TRIASSIC; VOLCANISM;

AFRICA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (CENTRAL); MOROCCO; NEWARK BASIN; NORTH AFRICA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33846361776     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2006.06.035     Document Type: Article

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