The calcareous nannofossil response to the end-Cretaceous warm event in the Tropical Pacific

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• nanofossil 100%
• warming 64%
• Cretaceous 60%
• intermediate water 39%
• species richness 28%
• surface water 22%
• cool water 21%
• paleotemperature 20%
• Deep Sea Drilling Project 19%
• planktonic foraminifera 19%
• benthic foraminifera 18%
• Maastrichtian 18%
• degassing 17%
• volcanism 15%
• marker 13%
• environmental conditions 12%
• productivity 11%
• atmosphere 9%
• climate change 9%
• ocean 9%
• chemical 8%
• distribution 5%