Large Ecosystem Perturbations: Causes and Consequences (GSA Special Paper 424)

Large Ecosystem Perturbations:
Causes and Consequences......Page 1
ISBN 978-0-8137-2424-9......Page 2
Contents......Page 3
Preface......Page 5
Cenozoic mass extinctions in the deep sea:
What perturbs the largest habitat on Earth?......Page 7
A major Pliocene coccolithophore turnover:
Change in morphological strategy in the photic zone......Page 31
The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum in Egypt and Jordan:
An overview of the planktic foraminiferal record......Page 59
Calcareous nannofossil assemblages and their response to the
Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum event at different latitudes:
ODP Site 690 and Tethyan sections......Page 75
A review of calcareous nannofossil changes during the early Aptian
Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a and the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal
Maximum: The infl uence of fertility, temperature, and pCO2......Page 93
Ecosystem perturbation caused by a small Late Cretaceous
marine impact, Gulf Coastal Plain, USA......Page 103
Chemostratigraphy of Frasnian-Famennian transition:
Possibility of methane hydrate dissociation leading to mass extinction......Page 115
Cover (back)......Page 132