Macrostratigraphy and macroevolution in marine environments: Testing the common-cause hypothesis

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 358, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 95-104

  Peters, Shanan E ^a   Heim, Noel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOSSIL RECORD; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PALEOBIOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; SEDIMENTATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STRATIGRAPHY;

EID: 84055217494     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP358.7     Document Type: Article

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