Millennial physical events and the end-Permian mass mortality in the western Palaeotethys: Timing and primary causes

Earth and Life: Global Biodiversity, Extinction Intervals and Biogeographic Perturbations Through Time

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 719-758

  Farabegoli, Enzo ^a   Perri, Maria Cristina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cyclicity; Dolomites; Gondwana; High stands; Mass mortality; Palaeotethys; Permian; Shelf environments; Triassic

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885447894     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-3428-1_24     Document Type: Chapter

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