Understanding the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event (GOBE): Influences of paleogeography, paleoclimate, or paleoecology?

GSA Today

Volumn 19, Issue 4-5, 2009, Pages 4-10

  Servais, Thomas ^a   Harper, David A T ^b   Li, Jun ^c   Munnecke, Axel ^d   Owen, Alan W ^e   Sheehan, Peter M ^f  

^a Univ Lille   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^f MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTEROID; BIODIVERSITY; DISPERSAL; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOZOIC; SEA LEVEL; SEAFLOOR SPREADING;

EID: 69249237570     PISSN: 10525173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/GSATG37A.1     Document Type: Article

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