Carboniferous isotope stratigraphies of North America: Implications for Carboniferous paleoceanography and Mississippian glaciation

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 111, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 960-973

  Mii, Horng Sheng ^a,b   Grossman, Ethan L ^b   Yancey, Thomas E ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCITE; ISOTOPES; OCEANOGRAPHY; ORGANIC CARBON; SHELLS (STRUCTURES);

CARBONIFEROUS STRATA; DEGLACIATIONS; GENERAL CORRELATIONS; MISSISSIPPIANS; OCEAN CIRCULATION; ORGANIC CARBON BURIAL; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PENNSYLVANIANS;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

CARBONIFEROUS; GLACIATION; MISSISSIPPIAN; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; STRATIGRAPHY;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0032700349     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1999)111<0960:CISONA>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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