Stable oxygen and carbon isotope compositional fields for skeletal and diagenetic components in New Zealand Cenozoic nontropical carbonate sediments and limestones: A synthesis and review

New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 93-107

  Nelson, Campbell S ^a   Smith, Abigail M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Calcite; Carbon isotopes; Cements; Cenozoic; Concretions; Dolomite; Fossils; Limestones; New Zealand; Nontropical carbonates; Oxygen isotopes; Siderite; Skeletons

Indexed keywords

CAINOZOIC; CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBONATE; LIMESTONE; NON-TROPICAL SEDIMENT; NONTROPICAL SEDIMENT; OXYGEN ISOTOPE;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 0029729006     PISSN: 00288306     EISSN: 11758791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00288306.1996.9514697     Document Type: Article

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