Large ecosystem perturbations : causes and consequences /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Monechi, Simonetta, Coccioni, R., Rampino, Michael R.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Boulder, Colo. : Geological Society of America, 2007.
Series:	Special papers (Geological Society of America) ; 424.
Subjects:	Paleoecology > Congresses. Paleoclimatology > Congresses. Global environmental change > Congresses. Extinction (Biology) > Congresses.

Table of Contents:

1. Cenozoic mass extinctions in the deep sea: What perturbs the largest habitat on Earth? / Ellen Thomas
2. A major Pliocene coccolithophore turnover: Change in morphological strategy in the photic zone / Marie-Pierre Aubry
3. The Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum in Egypt and Jordan: An overview of the planktic foraminiferal record / Elisa Guasti and Robert P. Speijer
4. Calcareous nannofossil assemblages and their response to the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum Event at different latitudes: ODP Site 690 and Tethyan sections / Eugenia Angori, Gilen Bernaola, and Simonetta Monechi
5. A review of calcareous nannofossil changes during the early Aptian Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a and the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum: The influence of fertility, temperature, and pCO2 / Fabrizio Tremolada, Elisabetta Erba, and Timothy J. Bralower
6. Ecosystem perturbation caused by a small Late Cretaceous marine impact, Gulf Coastal Plain, USA / David T. King Jr., Lucille W. Petruny, and Thornton L. Neathery
7. Chemostratigraphy of Frasnian-Famennian transition: Possibility of methane hydrate dissociation leading to mass extinction / Mohammad Hossein Mahmudy Gharaie, Ryo Matsumoto, Grzegorz Racki, and Yoshitaka Kakuwa.