Cretaceous paleoceanography: Evidence from planktonic foraminiferal evolution

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 332, Issue , 1999, Pages 301-328

  Silva, Isabella Premoli ^a   Sliter, William V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ORGANIC CARBON;

CATASTROPHIC EXTINCTIONS; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; EVOLUTIONARY CHANGES; FAUNAL TURNOVER; MORPHOLOGIC COMPLEXITY; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PARALLEL CHANGES; UPPER WATER COLUMN;

STREAM FLOW;

ALBIAN; CAMPANIAN; CRETACEOUS; EVOLUTION; EXTINCTION; MESOZOIC; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; SANTONIAN; THERMOCLINE; VALANGINIAN;

EID: 70349504115     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2332-9.301     Document Type: Article

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