The early Danian hyperthermal event at Boltysh (Ukraine): Relation to Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary events

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 505, Issue , 2014, Pages 133-146

  Gilmour, Iain ^a   Jolley, David ^b   Kemp, David ^a   Kelley, Simon ^a   Gilmour, Mabs ^a   Daly, Rob ^b   Widdowson, Mike ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS-PALEOGENE BOUNDARY; HYPERTHERMAL EVENTS; UKRAINE;

CARBON ISOTOPE; CRATER; CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; DANIAN; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PALYNOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION;

BOLTYSH CRATER; EAST EUROPEAN CRATON; KIROVOHRAD; UKRAINE; UKRAINIAN SHIELD;

EID: 84907542757     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2014.2505(06)     Document Type: Article

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