Deciphering Late Cretaceous subequatorial ocean-climate interactions in the Sergipe Basin, Brazil

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 332, Issue , 1999, Pages 231-243

  Carmo, Ana M ^a   Pratt, Lisa M ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATION; DEPOSITION; ISOTOPES; LIME; ORGANIC CARBON; PRODUCTIVITY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILICA;

CLEAR-WATER CONDITION; CLIMATIC FLUCTUATIONS; CLIMATIC OSCILLATIONS; DEPOSITIONAL PROCESS; GREENHOUSE CONDITIONS; INCREASED PRODUCTIVITY; PRESSURE DISSOLUTION; STABLE ISOTOPIC COMPOSITIONS;

LIMESTONE;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CRETACEOUS; DISSOLUTION; EQUATORIAL DYNAMICS; FINE GRAINED SEDIMENT; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MARL; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; TURBIDITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BRAZIL; SERGIPE-ALAGOAS BASIN;

EID: 0007680373     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2332-9.231     Document Type: Article

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