Major-element analysis of cyclic black shales: Paleoceanographic implications for the Early Cretaceous deep western Tethys

Paleoceanography

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 525-541

  Wortmann, Ulrich G ^a   Hesse, Reinhard ^b   Zacher, Wolfgang ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLACK SHALE; CHEMICAL ELEMENT; CRETACEOUS; CYCLIC SEDIMENTATION; DEEP-SEA SEDIMENT; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; TETHYS;

EID: 0033376087     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999PA900015     Document Type: Article

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