A forest fire and soil erosion event during the Late Devonian mass extinction

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 392, Issue , 2013, Pages 272-280

  Kaiho, Kunio ^a   Yatsu, Susumu ^a   Oba, Masahiro ^a   Gorjan, Paul ^b   Casier, Jean Georges ^c   Ikeda, Masayuki ^d  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^d EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atmospheric oxygen; Combustion; Devonian; Mass extinction; Soil erosion

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKER; COMBUSTION; DEVONIAN; FOREST FIRE; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MARINE SEDIMENT; MASS EXTINCTION; PALEOATMOSPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; SOIL EROSION;

BELGIUM;

EID: 84885718743     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.09.008     Document Type: Article

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