The influence of continental flood basalts on mass extinctions: Where do we stand?

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 307, Issue , 1996, Pages 513-525

  Courtillot, V ^a   Jaeger, J J ^b   Yang, Z ^a   Feraud G ^c   Hofmann, C ^c  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^b INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^c Laboratoire de Géodynamique   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FLOODS; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOLOGY;

AGE DETERMINATION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; CONTINENTAL BREAK-UP; CONTINENTAL FLOOD BASALT; MASS EXTINCTION EVENTS; PALEOMAGNETIC DATA; PERMO-TRIASSIC BOUNDARY; VARIABLE PARAMETERS;

BASALT;

AGE DETERMINATION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; DECCAN TRAPS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EXTINCTION RISK; FLOOD BASALT; MASS EXTINCTION; PALEOMAGNETISM; VOLCANISM;

BAY OF CAMPECHE; CHICXULUB CRATER; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; YUCATAN;

EID: 84870845716     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2307-8.513     Document Type: Article

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