Ordovician meteoric carbon and oxygen isotopic values: Implications for the latitudinal variations of ancient stable isotopic values

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 150, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 331-342

  Tobin, Kenneth J ^a   Steinhauff, D Mark ^b   Walker, Kenneth R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcite; Isotopes; Ordovician; Oxygen

Indexed keywords

CALCITE; CARBONATE SEDIMENT; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; METEORIC WATER; ORDOVICIAN; STABLE ISOTOPE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033165914     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(98)00221-1     Document Type: Article

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