No causal link between terrestrial ecosystem change and methane release during the end-Triassic mass extinction

Geology

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 531-534

  Lindström, Sofie ^a   van de Schootbrugge, Bas ^b   Dybkjær, Karen ^a   Pedersen, Gunver Krarup ^c   Fiebig, Jens ^b   Nielsen, Lars Henrik ^a   Richoz, Sylvain ^d  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Department of Geography and Geology ^*  (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLES; CARBON ISOTOPES; CENTRAL ATLANTIC MAGMATIC PROVINCES; FLOOD BASALT VOLCANISM; HIGH RESOLUTION; LONG-TERM EFFECTS; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MASS EXTINCTION; MASS EXTINCTION EVENTS; PALYNOSTRATIGRAPHY; TERRESTRIAL BIOTA; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS; TRIASSIC-JURASSIC BOUNDARY; VOLCANIC EMISSION;

CARBON DIOXIDE; GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; METHANE; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

ECOSYSTEMS;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON ISOTOPE; FLOOD BASALT; JURASSIC; MASS EXTINCTION; METHANE; PALYNOLOGY; SULFUR DIOXIDE; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; TRIASSIC; VOLCANISM;

DENMARK;

EID: 84864294441     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G32928.1     Document Type: Article

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