Organic carbon isotopic record across the Triassic-Jurassic boundary in Austria and its bearing on the cause of the mass extinction

Geology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 391-394

  Morante, R ^a   Hallam, A ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERTILIZERS; GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES;

BIOPRODUCTIVITY; CARBON ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; ISOTOPE VALUES; ISOTOPIC RECORD; MASS EXTINCTION; POSITIVE EXCURSION; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; TRIASSIC-JURASSIC BOUNDARY;

ORGANIC CARBON;

CARBON ISOTOPE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; JURASSIC; MARL; MASS EXTINCTION; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; TRIASSIC; CARBON; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; PRODUCTIVITY; TRIASSIC/JURASSIC BOUNDARY;

AUSTRIA; KENDELBACH;

EID: 0029773541     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1996)024<0391:OCIRAT>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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