Porewater sulphur geochemistry and fossil preservation during phosphate diagenesis in a Lower Cretaceous shelf mudstone

Sedimentology

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 875-887

  Poulton, S W ^a   Bottrell, S H ^a   Underwood, C J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; DIAGENESIS; GEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; GEOCHEMISTRY; MUDSTONE; PHOSPHATE; POREWATER; PRESERVATION; SULFUR;

NORTH YORKSHIRE; SPEETON; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0032465136     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3091.1998.00181.x     Document Type: Article

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