Evidence of increasing surface water oligotrophy during the Campanian-Maastrichtian boundary interval: Calcareous nannofossils from DSDP Hole 390A (Blake Nose)

Marine Micropaleontology

Volumn 73, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 26-36

  Linnert, Christian ^a   Mutterlose, Jörg ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

biostratigraphy; calcareous nannofossils; Campanian Maastrichtian boundary; DSDP Hole 390A; late Cretaceous cooling; palaeoceanography; surface water oligotrophy

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; COOL WATER; CRETACEOUS; GLOBAL CLIMATE; NANOFOSSIL; OCEANIC CURRENT; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; SURFACE WATER;

DISCORHABDUS IGNOTUS; EIFFELLITHUS; TRANOLITHUS; WATZNAUERIA; ZEUGRHABDOTUS;

EID: 70349131148     PISSN: 03778398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marmicro.2009.06.006     Document Type: Article

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