Planktic foraminifera, asteroids, and marine production: Death and recovery at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 307, Issue , 1996, Pages 303-317

  D'Hondt, Steven ^a   Herbert, Timothy D ^b   King, John ^a   Gibson, Carol ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEMS; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION;

CALCAREOUS NANNOFOSSIL; CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; EVOLUTIONARY RADIATIONS; FORAMINIFERAL ASSEMBLAGES; FORAMINIFERAL FAUNAS; MASS EXTINCTION; PLANKTIC FORAMINIFERA; PROXIMATE CAUSE;

RECOVERY;

ASTEROID; CRETACEOUS-PALEOGENE BOUNDARY; DEEP WATER; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MASS EXTINCTION; NANOFOSSIL; OCEANOGRAPHY; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 84870813250     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2307-8.303     Document Type: Article

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