Coupled oceanic effects of climatic cycles from late Albian deep-sea sections of the North Atlantic

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 332, Issue , 1999, Pages 143-159

  Hofmann, P ^a   Ricken, W ^a   Schwark, L ^a   Leythaeuser, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; OCEANOGRAPHY; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PRODUCTIVITY; SILICA;

BIOGENIC SILICA; CARBONATE COMPENSATION DEPTHS; CLIMATIC CYCLES; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEEP SEA DRILLING; MILANKOVITCH CYCLE; NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; REDOX CONDITION;

DEEPWATER DRILLING;

ALBIAN; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE CYCLE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEEP SEA; DEEP SEA DRILLING PROJECT; ORGANIC MATTER; PALEOCENE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; REDOX CONDITIONS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 0000064552     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2332-9.143     Document Type: Article

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