The environmental disaster of Aznalcóllar (southern Spain) as an approach to the Cretaceous-Palaeogene mass extinction event

Geobiology

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 533-543

  RodrIguez Tovar F J ^a   MartIn Peinado F J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDITY; ANT; BIOTIC FACTOR; CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARD; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; ICHNOLOGY; MASS EXTINCTION; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOIL POLLUTION; SUBSTRATE; TOXICITY;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BIODIVERSITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISASTER; SOIL POLLUTANT; SPAIN; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TIME;

BIODIVERSITY; DISASTERS; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; METEOROIDS; SOIL POLLUTANTS; SPAIN; TIME FACTORS;

ANDALUCIA; AZNALCOLLAR; EURASIA; EUROPE; SEVILLA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

TAPINOMA;

EID: 70449568811     PISSN: 14724677     EISSN: 14724669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4669.2009.00213.x     Document Type: Article

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