Extinction and food at the seafloor: A high-resolution benthic foraminiferal record across the Initial Eocene Thermal Maximum, Southern Ocean Site 690

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 369, Issue , 2003, Pages 319-332

  Thomas, Ellen ^a,b  

^a WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; CARBON; FOOD SUPPLY; GAS HYDRATES; HYDRATION; ISOTOPES; METHANE; OCEANOGRAPHY; PRODUCTIVITY; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; THIN WALLED STRUCTURES;

CALCAREOUS NANNOFOSSILS; LOW OXYGEN CONDITIONS; NEGATIVE CARBON ISOTOPE EXCURSIONS; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAMS; ORGANIC PRESERVATION; OXIDATION OF METHANE; PALEOCENE-EOCENE BOUNDARIES; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIA;

BACTERIA;

BACTERIUM; BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; CARBON ISOTOPE; EOCENE; FOOD SUPPLY; GAS HYDRATE; MASS EXTINCTION; METHANE; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; SEAFLOOR;

EID: 84871447587     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2369-8.319     Document Type: Article

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