Atmospheric halogen and acid rains during the main phase of Deccan eruptions: Magnetic and mineral evidence

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 505, Issue , 2014, Pages 353-368

  Font, Eric ^a   Fabre, Sébastien ^b   Nédélec, Anne ^b   Adatte, Thierry ^c   Keller, Gerta ^d   Veiga Pires, Cristina ^e   Ponte, Jorge ^f   Mirão, José ^g   Khozyem, Hassan ^c,h   Spangenberg, Jorge E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

^h ASWAN UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID RAIN; CLIMATE VARIATION; CRETACEOUS; DECCAN TRAPS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HALOGEN; MAGNETITE; MASS EXTINCTION; PALEOATMOSPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANIC GAS;

EID: 84907519759     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2014.2505(18)     Document Type: Article

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