Cretaceous wildfires and their impact on the Earth system

Cretaceous Research

Volumn 36, Issue , 2012, Pages 162-190

  Brown, Sarah A E ^a   Scott, Andrew C ^a   Glasspool, Ian J ^b   Collinson, Margaret E ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Angiosperms; Charcoal; Climate; Inertinite; Oceanic anoxic events (OAEs); Plant fossils; Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs); Post fire erosion

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; CAMPANIAN; CHARCOAL; CRETACEOUS; EROSION; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; OXYGEN; PAH; PALEOCLIMATE; PHOSPHORUS; RUNOFF; WILDFIRE;

ALBERTA; CANADA; DINOSAUR PROVINCIAL PARK;

DINOSAURIA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 84859832674     PISSN: 01956671     EISSN: 1095998X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2012.02.008     Document Type: Review

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