ICHNOLOGY OF THE MARINE K-PG INTERVAL: ENDOBENTHIC RESPONSE TO A LARGE-SCALE ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE

• Main Author: Unkn Unknown
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Temple University. Libraries 2014
• Subjects: Geology; FOS Earth and related environmental sciences; Sedimentary Geology; Paleontology; Braggs; Brazos River; Cretaceous-paleogene Boundary; Inversand Quarry; Mass Extinction; Thalassinoides; Alabama; Burrows; Planktonic foraminifera
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.34944/dspace/4014; https://scholarshare.temple.edu/handle/20.500.12613/4032

Most major Phanerozoic mass extinctions induced permanent or transient changes in ecological and anatomical characteristics of surviving benthic communities. Many infaunal marine organisms produced distinct suites of biogenic structures in a variety of depositional settings, thereby leaving an ichno...