Organic geochemistry and depositional history of the Barremian - Aptian boundary interval in the Lower Saxony Basin, northern Germany

Cretaceous Research

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 581-614

  Littke, Ralf ^a   Jendrzejewski, Lutz ^b   Lokay, Peter ^c   Shuangqing, Wang ^d   Rullkötter, Jürgen ^d  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aptian; Barremian; Black shales; Depositional environment; Early cretaceous; Fischschiefer; Oceanic Anoxic Event; Organic geochemistry; Organic petrology; Paper shales

Indexed keywords

APTIAN; BARREMIAN; BLACK SHALE; CRETACEOUS; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY;

GERMANY; LOWER SAXONY BASIN;

ALBIA; ALGAE; EMBRYOPHYTA; HEDBERGELLA;

EID: 0032461112     PISSN: 01956671     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cres.1998.0121     Document Type: Article

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