Volcanic perturbations of the marine environment in South China preceding the latest Permian mass extinction and their biotic effects

Geobiology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 82-103

  Shen, J ^a   Algeo, T J ^b   Zhou, L ^a   Feng, Q ^a   Yu, J ^a   Ellwood, B ^c  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASH FLOW; BENTONITE; BIOTIC FACTOR; CONIFEROUS FOREST; CRATON; DATA SET; FLOOD BASALT; GEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MASS EXTINCTION; PALEOBIOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY; PERMIAN; PERTURBATION; PHYTOPLANKTON; POPULATION DECLINE; RADIOLARIA; SEDIMENTATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANISM; WATER DEPTH; WILDFIRE; ZOOPLANKTON;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHINA; FOSSIL; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEDIMENT; SPECIES EXTINCTION; ZOOPLANKTON;

ANIMALS; CHINA; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FOSSILS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GEOLOGICAL PROCESSES; PHYTOPLANKTON; ZOOPLANKTON;

CHINA; GUANGXI ZHUANGZU; NANPANJIANG BASIN;

CONIFEROPHYTA; RADIOLARIA (PROTOZOANS);

EID: 83655184773     PISSN: 14724677     EISSN: 14724669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4669.2011.00306.x     Document Type: Article

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