Last global extinction in the deep sea during the mid-Pleistocene climate transition

Paleoceanography

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Hayward, Bruce W ^a   Kawagata, Shungo ^a,b   Grenfell, Hugh R ^a   Sabaa, Ashwaq T ^a   O'Neill, Tanya ^c  

^a Geomarine Research   (New Zealand)

^b YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEEP-SEA BENTHOS; EXTINCTION; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; INTERMEDIATE WATER; PALEOCLIMATE; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

PLEUROSTOMELLIDAE;

EID: 36749023366     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007PA001424     Document Type: Article

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