Campanian-Maastrichtian intermediate-to deep-water changes in the high latitudes: Benthic foraminiferal evidence

Paleoceanography

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Koch, Mirjam C ^a   Friedrich, Oliver ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; CAMPANIAN; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); COOLING; DEEP WATER; ERG; ICE SHEET; INTERMEDIATE WATER; LATITUDE; MAASTRICHTIAN; ORGANIC MATTER; OXYGEN; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; SUCCESSION;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84861673480     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011PA002259     Document Type: Article

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