Environmental and vegetational changes recorded in sedimentary leaf wax n-alkanes across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary at Loma Capiro, Central Cuba

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 295, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 31-41

  Yamamoto, Shinya ^a   Hasegawa, Takashi ^a   Tada, Ryuji ^b   Goto, Kazuhisa ^c   Rojas Consuegra, Reinaldo ^d   Díaz Otero, Consuelo ^e   García Delgado, Dora E ^f   Yamamoto, Shinji ^b   Sakuma, Hironobu ^b   Matsui, Takafumi ^b  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Museo Nacional de Historia Natural Cuba   (Cuba)

^e Instituto de Geologia y Paleontologia La Habana   (Cuba)

^f NATL CENTER FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (Cuba)

Author keywords

Cretaceous; Cretaceous Paleogene boundary; Leaf wax; N alkane; Paleogene; Stable carbon isotopes

Indexed keywords

ALKANE; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CARBON ISOTOPE; CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LEAF; MASS EXTINCTION; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; STABLE ISOTOPE; WAX;

CUBA; LOMA CAPIRO; VILLA CLARA;

EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 77955270825     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.05.013     Document Type: Article

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