An organic carbon isotope record of late Ordovician to early Silurian marine sedimentary rocks, Yangtze Sea, South China: Implications for CO2 changes during the Hirnantian glaciation

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 132, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 147-158

  Wang, K ^a   Chatterton, B D E ^b   Wang, Y ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Glaciation; Latest Ordovician; South China

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; GLACIATION; HIRNANTIAN; ORDOVICIAN; PALAEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALAEOCEANOGRAPY; PALAEOCLIMATE; SILURIAN;

(SOUTH); CHINA;

HIRNANTIA;

EID: 0030749051     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(97)00046-1     Document Type: Article

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