Diverse patterns of ocean export productivity change across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary: New insights from biogenic barium

Paleoceanography

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Hull, Pincelli M ^a,b   Norris, Richard D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM; BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; BIOGENIC MATERIAL; CARBON ISOTOPE; CRETACEOUS; DEEP WATER; MASS EXTINCTION; OPEN OCEAN; ORGANIC MATTER; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOGENE; POTASSIUM; SEDIMENTATION RATE; STRATIGRAPHIC BOUNDARY; SURFACE WATER; TRANSPORT PROCESS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 79961111285     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010PA002082     Document Type: Article

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