A role for chance in marine recovery from the end-Cretaceous extinction

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 856-860

  Hull, Pincelli M ^a,b   Norris, Richard D ^a   Bralower, Timothy J ^c   Schueth, Jonathan D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CRETACEOUS; FOSSIL RECORD; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MASS EXTINCTION; PALEOGENE; PELAGIC ECOSYSTEM; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPHIC INTERACTION; TROPHIC LEVEL; ZOOPLANKTON;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 82455163921     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1302     Document Type: Article

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