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Mass extinctions are rapid events Available to Purchase
Digby J. McLaren
Digby J. McLaren
Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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Digby J. McLaren
Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Publisher: SEPM Society for Sedimentary Geology
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03 Mar 2017
Online ISSN: 1938-5323
Print ISSN: 0883-1351
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PALAIOS (1996) 11 (5): 409–410.
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CitationDigby J. McLaren; Mass extinctions are rapid events. PALAIOS 1996;; 11 (5): 409–410. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/3515208
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Index Terms/Descriptors
- asteroids
- biomass
- Cenozoic
- Chicxulub Crater
- Chordata
- concepts
- Cretaceous
- Devonian
- dinosaurs
- effects
- Famennian
- Frasnian
- global
- human activity
- impacts
- isotopes
- K-T boundary
- lower Paleocene
- Mammalia
- mass extinctions
- mechanism
- Mesozoic
- meteorites
- Mexico
- Paleocene
- paleoecology
- paleoenvironment
- Paleogene
- Paleozoic
- Permian
- Phanerozoic
- Plantae
- punctuated equilibria
- rates
- reefs
- Reptilia
- stable isotopes
- stratigraphic boundary
- Tertiary
- Tetrapoda
- Triassic
- Upper Cretaceous
- Upper Devonian
- velocity
- Vertebrata
- Yucatan Peninsula
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