Distal "impact" layers and global acidification of ocean water at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary (KPB)

Geochemistry International

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 55-65

  Premovic P I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NI   (Serbia)

Author keywords

"impact" layer; Cretaceous Paleogene; global acidification; ocean water

Indexed keywords

''IMPACT'' LAYER; ATMOSPHERIC CO; CHEMICAL CHANGE; CRETACEOUS-PALEOGENE BOUNDARY; DENMARK; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; GLOBAL ACIDIFICATION; OCEAN SURFACES; OCEAN WATER; PALEOGENE; SMECTITES; TUNISIA; UNDERSATURATION;

CALCITE; CARBONATE MINERALS; CLAY MINERALS; DISSOLUTION;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ACIDIFICATION; CALCIFICATION; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CRETACEOUS; DEPOSITION; DISSOLUTION; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOGENE; SEAWATER; STRATIGRAPHIC BOUNDARY;

AGOST; ALICANTE [COMUNIDAD VALENCIA]; CARAVACA; COMUNIDAD VALENCIA; DENMARK; MURCIA [SPAIN]; SPAIN;

EID: 78751509713     PISSN: 00167029     EISSN: 15561968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1134/S0016702911010095     Document Type: Article

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