Environmental control on temporal and spatial differentiation of Early Silurian pentameride brachiopod communities, Anticosti Island, eastern Canada

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 159-187

  Jin, Jisuo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM; DECISION MAKING; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; RANDOM VARIABLES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEPARATION; URBAN PLANNING;

ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROLS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS (MVA); OCEAN WATERS; SEGREGATION (BENEFICIATION); SPATIAL DIFFERENTIATION; SUBSTRATE CONDITIONS; WATER DEPTHS; WIDER RANGE;

LANDFORMS;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BRACHIOPOD; CARBONATE; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; ISLAND; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SILURIAN; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ANTICOSTI ISLAND; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

CLORINDA; EHLERSELLA; KULUMBELLA; MICROCARDINALIA; PENTAMERUS; STRICKLANDIA; STRICKLANDIIDAE;

EID: 44649093856     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/E07-045     Document Type: Article

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