Paleobotanical evidence for climatic change across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary, North America: Twenty years after Wolfe and Upchurch

CFS Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg

Volumn , Issue 258, 2007, Pages 57-74

  Upchurch Jr , Garland R ^a   Lomax, Barry H ^b   Beerling, David J ^b  

^a Texas State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bolide; Climate; Cretaceous; Mass extinction; Mass mortality; Paleobotany; Paleoclimate; Palynology; Tertiary; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUD; CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FOSSIL RECORD; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MASS EXTINCTION; MASS MORTALITY; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEONTOLOGY; PALEOSOL; PALYNOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SOLAR RADIATION;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 37249068599     PISSN: 03414116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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