Calcareous nannoplankton mass extinction at the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary: An update

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 307, Issue , 1996, Pages 335-360

  Pospichal, James J ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRIDIUM; SEA LEVEL;

BIOTURBATION; BOUNDARY CRISIS; CALCAREOUS NANNOFOSSIL; CARBONATE SEDIMENTATIONS; MASS EXTINCTION; SITE TO SITES; SOUTH ATLANTIC; UNSTABLE CONDITIONS;

THERMAL GRADIENTS;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CALCARENITE; CRETACEOUS-PALEOGENE BOUNDARY; DANIAN; GEOTHERMAL GRADIENT; MAASTRICHTIAN; MASS EXTINCTION; NANOFOSSIL; NANOPLANKTON; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH); INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 84870804699     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2307-8.335     Document Type: Article

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