Phytoplankton dynamics across the Ordovician/Silurian boundary at low palaeolatitudes: Correlations with carbon isotopic and glacial events

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 312, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 79-97

  Delabroye, Aurélien ^a,b   Munnecke, Axel ^c   Vecoli, Marco ^b   Copper, Paul ^d   Tribovillard, Nicolas ^b   Joachimski, Michael M ^c   Desrochers, André ^e   Servais, Thomas ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIV LILLE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^d LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Baltica; Carbon isotopes; Gondwana; Laurentia; Ordovician Silurian boundary; Phytoplankton

Indexed keywords

ACRITARCH; BALTICA; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CARBON ISOTOPE; CORRELATION; DEGLACIATION; GONDWANA; ICE SHEET; LAURENTIA; MASS EXTINCTION; ORDOVICIAN-SILURIAN BOUNDARY; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOLATITUDE; PALYNOLOGY; PHYTOPLANKTON; TAPHONOMY;

ANTICOSTI ISLAND; CANADA; MOROCCO; QUEBEC [CANADA];

ACRITARCHA; ANTHOZOA; BRACHIOPODA; CHITINOZOA; DILATISPHAERA; EVITTIA; MICRHYSTRIDIUM; OPPILATALA; ORTHOSPHAERIDIUM; PETEINOSPHAERIDIUM;

EID: 82255162532     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.09.011     Document Type: Article

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