Environmental consequences of Ontong Java Plateau and Kerguelen Plateau volcanism

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 511, Issue , 2015, Pages 271-303

  Erba, Elisabetta ^a   Duncan, Robert A ^b,c   Bottini, Cinzia ^a   Tiraboschi, Daniele ^a   Weissert, Helmut ^d   Jenkyns, Hugh C ^e   Malinverno, Alberto ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; LEAD; METAL RECOVERY; OCEANOGRAPHY; POSITIVE IONS; TRACE ELEMENTS;

BENTHIC COMMUNITIES; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES; ENVIRONMENTAL DISRUPTION; KERGUELEN PLATEAU; LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCES (LIPS); OCEANIC ANOXIC EVENTS; PALEOENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

ACIDIFICATION; BIOTA; CALCIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; EXTINCTION; LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCE; NANOPLANKTON; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; PLATEAU; VOLCANISM;

INDIAN OCEAN; KERGUELEN PLATEAU; ONTONG JAVA PLATEAU; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84930192957     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2015.2511(15)     Document Type: Article

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