Cretaceous Drowning of Reefs on Mid-Pacific and Japanese Guyots
- 26 April 1974
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 184 (4135) , 462-464
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.184.4135.462
Abstract
Reefs dredged on guyots of the Mid-Pacific Mountains and the Japanese Seamounts yield middle Cretaceous fossils, indicating that submergence killed off the fauna of the reefs sometime during the Albian-Cenomanian. Eustatic rise of sea level is probably responsible.Keywords
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