Paleogeographic, paleoceanographic, and tectonic controls on early Late Ordovician graptolite diversity patterns

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 466, Issue , 2010, Pages 149-161

  Goldman, Daniel ^a   Shuang Ye, Wu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DETERIORATION;

APPALACHIAN BASIN; CLIMATE DETERIORATION; DENSITY STRUCTURES; DIFFERENT MECHANISMS; MARINE BIODIVERSITY; SEAWATER TEMPERATURE; TECTONIC CONTROL; TEMPERATURE CHANGES;

SEAWATER;

BIODIVERSITY; CRATON; GRAPTOLITE; LAURENTIA; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOLATITUDE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEAWATER; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TECTONIC SETTING;

APPALACHIAN BASIN; AUSTRALASIA; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WALES;

CLIMACOGRAPTUS BICORNIS;

EID: 78650949870     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2010.2466(10)     Document Type: Article

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