Atlantic cooling associated with a marine biotic crisis during the mid-Cretaceous period

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 558-561

  McAnena, A ^a   Flogel S ^b   Hofmann, P ^a   Herrle, J O ^c,d   Griesand, A ^c,d   Pross, J ^c,d   Talbot, H M ^e   Rethemeyer, J ^a   Wallmann, K ^b   Wagner, T ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

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

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE BIK F   (Germany)

^e NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; COOLING; CRETACEOUS; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; NANOPLANKTON; OCEAN BASIN; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEDIMENT CORE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 84879762037     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/NGEO1850     Document Type: Article

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