Biogeographic distribution of late early to Late Cretaceous rudist-reefs in the mediterranean as climate indicators

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 332, Issue , 1999, Pages 91-103

  Voigt, Silke ^a   Hay, William W ^b   Höfling, Richard ^c   DeConto, Robert M ^d  

^a TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

^b GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^c Inst für Paläontologie und Historische Geologie   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; ECOLOGY; NUTRIENTS; REEFS; WATER;

BIOCONSTRUCTIONS; CARBONATE PLATFORMS; CLIMATE INDICATORS; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; ESTUARINE CIRCULATION; PRECIPITATION AND RUNOFF; TERRIGENOUS INPUTS; WARM TEMPERATURES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; APTIAN; ARID REGION; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CARBONATE PLATFORM; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRETACEOUS; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; FRESHWATER; MAASTRICHTIAN; REEF; RUNOFF; SALINITY; SEDIMENTATION;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION; SPAIN;

EID: 84870911307     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2332-9.91     Document Type: Article

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