Elevated primary productivity of calcareous nannoplankton associated with ocean anoxic event 1b during the Aptian/Albian transition (Early Cretaceous)

Paleoceanography

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Browning, Emily L ^a,b   Watkins, David K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBIAN; APTIAN; NANOPLANKTON; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PRIMARY PRODUCTION;

EID: 50649095771     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007PA001413     Document Type: Article

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