Palaeoclimatic and biotic changes during the Aalenian (Middle Jurassic) at the southern Laurasian Seaway (Basque-Cantabrian Basin, northern Spain)

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 275, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 14-27

  Gómez, Juan J ^a   Canales, María L ^a   Ureta, Soledad ^a   Goy, Antonio ^a  

^a Universidad Complutense de Madrid CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ammonoids; Biotic changes; Foraminifers; Palaeoceanography; Palaeoclimate; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

AALENIAN; ABUNDANCE; AMMONITE; BAJOCIAN; BASIN EVOLUTION; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CARBON ISOTOPE; CEPHALOPOD; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTINENTAL CRUST; COOLING; DIAGENESIS; FACIES; FORAMINIFERA; HIGH TEMPERATURE; IMMIGRATION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; SEAWATER; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; STABLE ISOTOPE; SUBSIDENCE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WARMING; WATER TEMPERATURE;

BASQUE-CANTABRIAN BASIN; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

AMMONOIDEA; BELEMNOIDEA; FORAMINIFERA; SPIRILLINA;

EID: 63649153919     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.01.009     Document Type: Article

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