An organic record of terrestrial ecosystem collapse and recovery at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary in East Greenland

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 127, Issue , 2014, Pages 251-263

  Williford, Kenneth H ^a   Grice, Kliti ^a   Holman, Alexander ^a   McElwain, Jennifer C ^b  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKER; BIOTIC FACTOR; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FIRE; GLOBAL WARMING; GYMNOSPERM; HYDROGEN ISOTOPE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; JURASSIC; LIPID; MASS EXTINCTION; PAH; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLANT; RESIN; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; TRIASSIC;

ARCTIC; EAST GREENLAND; GREENLAND;

GYMNOSPERMAE;

EID: 84891687165     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2013.11.033     Document Type: Article

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