Significant changes in land vegetation and oceanic redox across the Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 369, Issue , 2013, Pages 41-47

  Mizukami, Takuya ^a   Kaiho, Kunio ^a   Oba, Masahiro ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anoxia; Biomarker; Cretaceous Paleogene; Dissolved oxygen; Mass extinction; Plant; Recovery; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

ALKANE; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BIOMARKER; CLAY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONIFEROUS TREE; CRETACEOUS; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; EUXINIC ENVIRONMENT; INFLOW; INTERMEDIATE WATER; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MASS EXTINCTION; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOGENE; REDOX CONDITIONS;

CARAVACA; MURCIA [SPAIN]; SPAIN;

CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 84872033822     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.09.020     Document Type: Article

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