Recurrent depletion of benthic oxygen with 4th-order transgressive maxima in the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 128, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 39-61

  Sethi, Parvinder S ^a,b   Leithold, Elana L ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RADFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cretaceous; metals; organic carbon; periodicity; sulfur; Western Interior

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC ENVIRONMENT; CRETACEOUS; OXYGEN DEPLETION; PERIODICITY; SEA LEVEL VARIATION;

NORTH AMERICA, WESTERN INTERIOR SEAWAY;

EID: 0030620750     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(96)00104-6     Document Type: Article

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