Acritarch (marine microphytoplankton) diversity in an Early Ordovician deep-water setting (the Skiddaw Group, northern England): Implications for the relationship between sea-level change and phytoplankton diversity

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 275, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 59-76

  Molyneux, Stewart G ^a  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acritarchs; Biodiversity; Ordovician; Phytoplankton; Sea level changes

Indexed keywords

ACRITARCH; BIODIVERSITY; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CRATON; DEEP WATER; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PHANEROZOIC; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SUCCESSION; TURNOVER;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

ACRITARCHA;

EID: 63649140419     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.02.002     Document Type: Article

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