Early Cretaceous chalks from the North Sea giving evidence for global change

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Mutterlose, Jörg ^a   Bottini, Cinzia ^a,b  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONIC ACID; RUNOFF;

BARREMIAN; ENDEMIC SPECIES; GLOBAL CHANGE; JURASSIC; LATITUDE; NANOFOSSIL; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PRIMARY PRODUCTION;

APTIAN; ARTICLE; BARREMIAN; GREENHOUSE; JURASSIC; LOWER CRETACEOUS; NANNOFOSSIL; NORTH SEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOENVIRONMENT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

EID: 84877771586     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2698     Document Type: Article

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