Environmental change across a terrestrial Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary section in eastern Montana, USA, constrained by carbonate clumped isotope paleothermometry

Geology

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 351-354

  Tobin, Thomas S ^a   Wilson, Gregory P ^a   Eiler, John M ^b   Hartman, Joseph H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c University of North Dakota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; MOLLUSCS; STRATIGRAPHY;

CRETACEOUS-PALEOGENE BOUNDARY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; GEOCHEMICAL PROXIES; PALEOTEMPERATURE PROXY; STRATIGRAPHIC INTERVALS; SUMMER TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE RECONSTRUCTION;

ISOTOPES;

BOLIDE; CRETACEOUS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; IMPACT; MASS EXTINCTION; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOGENE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION;

BIVALVIA; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84896085242     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G35262.1     Document Type: Article

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