Palaeoceanographic and palaeoclimatic reorganization around the Middle-Late Jurassic transition

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 251, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 527-546

  Rais, Pauline ^a   Louis Schmid, Beat ^a   Bernasconi, Stefano M ^a   Weissert, Helmut ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Chemostratigraphy; Hardgrounds; Oxfordian; Palaeoceanography; Palaeocirculation; Tethys

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CARBON ISOTOPE; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; CURRENT VELOCITY; GLOBAL CHANGE; JURASSIC; LIMESTONE; OCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; SEDIMENT THICKNESS; SHELF SEDIMENT; TETHYS;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; SUBALPINE BASIN; SWITZERLAND; WESTERN EUROPE;

AMMONOIDEA;

EID: 34447259576     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.05.008     Document Type: Article

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