Chemical constitution of a Permian-Triassic disaster species

Geology

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 875-878

  Sephton, Mark A ^a   Visscher, Henk ^b   Looy, Cindy V ^c   Verchovsky, Alexander B ^d   Watson, Jonathan S ^d  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON AND NITROGEN; CHEMICAL CONSTITUTION; END-PERMIAN; ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS; GEOCHEMICAL DATA; GEOCHEMICAL SIGNATURES; HIGH-SENSITIVITY; INTERSTELLAR GRAINS; MASS EXTINCTION; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; ORGANIC CONSTITUENTS; PERMIAN; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS; TRIASSIC;

ISOTOPES;

ORGANIC CARBON;

BIOMARKER; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; GEOCHEMISTRY; MASS EXTINCTION; MICROFOSSIL; PERMIAN-TRIASSIC BOUNDARY;

ALGAE; FUNGI;

EID: 70350389846     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G30096A.1     Document Type: Article

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