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Effects of Past Global Change on Life (1995) / Chapter Skim
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... Late Ordovician mass mortality and subsequent Early Silurian reradiation, in Extinction Events in Earth History, E
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... Late Ordovician mass extinction among the Graptoloidea, in Abstracts of the Fifth International Symposium on the Ordovician System, H
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... Vertical advection from oxic or anoxic water from the main pycnocline as a cause of rapid extinction or rapid radiation, in Extinction Events in Earth History, E
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Key Terms

  • extinction events
  • mass extinction
  • boundary interval
  • faunal turnover
  • late ordovician

  • sedimentary petrology
  • mass mortality
  • persculptus zone
  • south china
  • mass extinctions

  • mass mortalities
  • hirnantian stage
  • environmental changes
  • earth history
  • extinction event

  • fossil record
  • geological society


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