Effects of Deccan volcanism on paleoenvironment and planktic foraminifera: A global survey

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 505, Issue , 2014, Pages 91-116

  Punekar, Jahnavi ^a   Mateo, Paula ^a   Keller, Gerta ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PALEO-ENVIRONMENT; PLANKTIC FORAMINIFERA;

ACIDIFICATION; CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; DECCAN TRAPS; FLOOD BASALT; MAASTRICHTIAN; MASS EXTINCTION; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PHYTOPLANKTON; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANISM;

BAY OF BENGAL; INDIA; INDIAN OCEAN;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 84907525111     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2014.2505(04)     Document Type: Review

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