[meteorite-list] The Kinetics of Mass Extinction and Origination

From: oxytropidoceras at cox.net <oxytropidoceras_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 8:03:48 -0500
Message-ID: <20091121080348.MN02G.831317.imail_at_eastrmwml39>

Paleontologists find extinction rates higher in open-ocean settings
during mass extinctions. Science Daily, November 20, 2009
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091119194128.htm

Other web pages:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-11/uoc-pfe111909.php
http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/paleontologists-find-extinction-rates-higher-open-ocean-settings-during-mass-extinctions-27417.html

The paper is:

Miller, A. I. and M. Foote, 2009, Epicontinental Seas Versus Open-Ocean
Settings: The Kinetics of Mass Extinction and Origination. Science.
vol. 326, no. 5956, pp. 1106 - 1109. DOI: 10.1126/science.1180061
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/326/5956/1106

Yours,

Paul H.
Received on Sat 21 Nov 2009 08:03:48 AM PST