An expanded Cretaceous-Tertiary transition in a pelagic setting of the Southern Alps (central-western Tethys)

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 255, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 98-131

  Fornaciari, Eliana ^a   Giusberti, Luca ^a   Luciani, Valeria ^b   Tateo, Fabio ^a   Agnini, Claudia ^a   Backman, Jan ^c   Oddone, Massimo ^d   Rio, Domenico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Belluno Basin; Calcareous nannofossils; Geochemistry; K T boundary; Mineralogy; Planktonic foraminifera; Southern Alps

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; DANIAN; DINOFLAGELLATE; GEOCHEMISTRY; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; NANOFOSSIL; PELAGIC ECOSYSTEM; PELAGIC ENVIRONMENT; PHYTOPLANKTON; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA;

AUSTRALASIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; NEW ZEALAND; PIAVE RIVER; SOUTH ISLAND; SOUTHERN ALPS; SOUTHERN EUROPE; VENETO;

CRUCIPLACOLITHUS PRIMUS; DINOPHYCEAE; FORAMINIFERA; HAPTOPHYCEAE; MICULA; PARVULARUGOGLOBIGERINA EUGUBINA; THORACOSPHAERA;

EID: 33947398113     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.02.044     Document Type: Article

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