Pulse of atmospheric oxygen during the late Cambrian

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 3876-3881

  Saltzman, Matthew R ^a   Young, Seth A ^b   Kump, Lee R ^c   Gill, Benjamin C ^d,e   Lyons, Timothy W ^e   Runnegar, Bruce ^f  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Dinoflagellate; Evolution; Paleozoic; Stable isotope

Indexed keywords

CARBONIC ACID; ISOTOPE; ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC MATTER; OXYGEN; SULFUR; TRACE ELEMENT;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; AUSTRALIA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOTA; CAMBRIAN; CHINA; FRACTIONATION; HABITAT; MACRONUTRIENT; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; ORDOVICIAN; PLANKTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; DINOPHYCEAE;

EID: 79952753896     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1011836108     Document Type: Article

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