The unique significance and origin of the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary: Historical context and burdens of proof

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 307, Issue , 1996, Pages 31-38

  Ryder, Graham ^a  

^a LUNAR AND PLANETARY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY BOUNDARY; BEARING LAYERS; CENOZOIC; CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; EVENT BOUNDARY; FAUNAL CHANGE; MESOZOIC; PERMIAN-TRIASSIC BOUNDARY;

STRATIGRAPHY;

ALLOSTRATIGRAPHY; MESOZOIC; PERMIAN-TRIASSIC BOUNDARY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

EID: 84870806415     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2307-8.31     Document Type: Article

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