Vol. 305, Issue 10, 2005 | Published by American Journal of Science

Science Paper
Leaf Architectural Profiles of Angiosperm Floras Across the Cretaceous/Tertiary Boundary
W. A. GreenL. J. Hickey
The Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary extinction has long been considered one of the most important identifiable events in the course of Phanerozoic evolution. At times, the dramatic evidence for this has obscured...
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The Timing of Paleoenvironmental Change and Cause-And-Effect Relationships During the Early Jurassic Mass Extinction in Europe
Paul B. WignallRobert J. NewtonCrispin T.S. Little
The early Jurassic marine mass extinction is one of several crises thought to coincide with anoxia, transgression and warming caused by catastrophic release of gas hydrates. However, high-resolution study of...
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Stable Isotope Paleoaltimetry: A Critical Review
Peter M. BlisniukLibby A. Stern
Stable isotope paleoaltimetry makes use of systematic trends in the distribution and isotopic composition of modern precipitation with climate and topography, and of the potential to estimate the isotopic composition...