Two pulses of extinction during the Permian-Triassic crisis

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 52-56

  Song, Haijun ^a   Wignall, Paul B ^b   Tong, Jinnan ^a   Yin, Hongfu ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGA; AQUATIC ORGANISM; BENTHOS; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; MASS EXTINCTION; PERMIAN; PLANKTON; TRIASSIC;

SIBERIA;

ALGAE; ANTHOZOA; FUSULINIDA;

EID: 84871542261     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1649     Document Type: Article

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