An Introduction to “Biotic Responses to Major Paleoceanographic Changes”

ABSTRACT The title of this extremely successful session at IPC VI might at first glance evoke the negative response" Oh no, not more huge, illegible lists of unpronounceable names of microfossils showing which ones survived being hit by an asteroid". This response would be very wide of the mark. The" biotic response" session reflected a recent trend in paleoceanographic research that in my personal opinion is particularly fruitful: the integration of research by geochemical and micropaleontological paleoceanographers as ...