Sulphidic mediterranean surface waters during Pliocene sapropel formation

Nature

Volumn 397, Issue 6715, 1999, Pages 146-149

  Passier, Hilde F ^a,c   Bosch, Hendrik Jan ^a   Nijenhuis, Ivar A ^a   Lourens, Lucas J ^a   Böttcher, Michael E ^d   Leenders, Anke ^a,b   Damste, Jaap S Sinninghe ^a,b   De Lange, Gert J ^a   De Leeuw, Jan W ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c Paleomagnetic Laboratory Utrecht   (Netherlands)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC MATTER; SURFACE WATER;

ORGANIC MATTER; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PLIOCENE; SAPROPEL; SULFIDE;

ARTICLE; CHLOROBIUM; CLIMATE; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GEOLOGY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 0033552928     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/16441     Document Type: Article

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