Geographic controls on nannoplankton extinction across the Cretaceous/Palaeogene boundary

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 280-285

  Jiang, Shijun ^a   Bralower, Timothy J ^a   Patzkowsky, Mark E ^a   Kump, Lee R ^a   Schueth, Jonathan D ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIFICATION; CARBONATE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CRETACEOUS; FOOD WEB; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MASS EXTINCTION; MORTALITY; NANOFOSSIL; NANOPLANKTON; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OCEAN BASIN; PALEOGENE; PALEONTOLOGY; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; POPULATION DENSITY; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EID: 77950541232     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo775     Document Type: Article

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