Mass extinctions: Persistent problems and new directions

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 307, Issue , 1996, Pages 1-9

  Jablonski, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS;

CAUSE AND EFFECTS; COMPLEX BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; CONTINENTAL SHELVES; DIFFERENT EFFECTS; EVOLUTIONARY CHANGES; PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; SUSPENSION FEEDER;

FEEDING;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BIOTIC FACTOR; CONTINENTAL SHELF; CRETACEOUS; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MASS EXTINCTION; MOLLUSC; PALEONTOLOGY; SAMPLING;

EID: 84870769347     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2307-8.1     Document Type: Article

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