Biotic selectivity during the K/T and Late Ordovician extinction events

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 307, Issue , 1996, Pages 477-489

  Sheehan, Peter M ^a   Coorough, Patricia J ^a   Fastovsky, David E ^b  

^a MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEA LEVEL;

CLIMATIC GRADIENTS; FOOD CHAIN; IMPACT EVENTS; LATE ORDOVICIAN; MASS EXTINCTION; PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; SEALEVEL CHANGE; SHORT TERM;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BIOTIC FACTOR; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CRETACEOUS-PALEOGENE BOUNDARY; DAYLIGHT; DETRITUS; EXTINCTION RISK; LATE GLACIAL; ORDOVICIAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIMARY PRODUCTION;

EID: 4344625205     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2307-8.477     Document Type: Article

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