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... of the Cretaceous and Early Paleogene reflected production of warm saline deep waters in middle-latitude areas. The rapid ocean warming associated with the isotope excursion and mass extinction must have occurred from the deep ocean upward.
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Key Terms

  • mass extinction
  • deep waters
  • north atlantic
  • anoxic event
  • oxygen isotopic

  • organic carbon
  • environmental changes
  • surface water
  • warm water
  • oceanic anoxic

  • isotopic excursion


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