Volcanically mediated plankton blooms in the Central Belt of the Southern Uplands, Scotland, during the Llandovery

Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Earth Sciences

Volumn 91, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 457-470

  Rigby, S ^a   Davies, S J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

bentonites; graptolites; Lower Palaeozoic; palaeoceanography

Indexed keywords

GRAPTOLITE; MICRONUTRIENT; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOZOIC; PLANKTON; VOLCANIC ASH;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0034893043     PISSN: 02635933     EISSN: 14737116     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0263593300008300     Document Type: Article

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