Lower Triassic large sea-floor carbonate cements: Their origin and a mechanism for the prolonged biotic recovery from the end-Permian mass extinction

Geology

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 645-648

  Woods, Adam D ^a   Bottjer, David J ^a   Mutti, Maria ^a   Morrison, Jean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCITE; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CARBONATION; CEMENTS; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

CARBONATE CEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; LOWER TRIASSIC; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MASS EXTINCTION; REGIONAL LEVELS; SULFATE REDUCTION; SYNSEDIMENTARY;

PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL);

CALCIUM CARBONATE; CARBONATE PRECIPITATION; MASS EXTINCTION; PERMIAN; SEAFLOOR; TRIASSIC;

EID: 0032694930     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1999)027<0645:LTLSFC>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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