Carbon-isotope stratigraphy in shallow-water carbonates: Implications for Cretaceous black-shale deposition

Sedimentology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 623-634

  Grötsch, Jürgen ^a,b   Billing, Ian ^a   Vahrenkamp, Volker ^a,c  

^a SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

^b ADCO   (United Arab Emirates)

^c Shell Sarawak Berhad ^*  (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLACK SHALE; CARBON ISOTOPE RATIO; CARBONATE PLATFORM; CRETACEOUS; CYCLOSTRATIGRAPHY; DIAGENESIS; EUSTACY;

EID: 0032422971     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3091.1998.00158.x     Document Type: Article

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