Geochemical signature and related climatic-oceanographic processes for early Albian black shales: Site 417D, North Atlantic Ocean

Cretaceous Research

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 243-257

  Hofmann, Peter ^a   Ricken, Werner ^a   Schwark, Lorenz ^a   Leythaeuser, Detlev ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Black shales; Climate forcing; Early Albian; North Atlantic; Oceanic Anoxic Event 1b; Redox conditions

Indexed keywords

ALBIAN; ANOXIA; BLACK SHALE; CRETACEOUS; GEOCHEMISTRY; ORGANIC MATTER; REDOX CONDITIONS; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BERMUDA RISE;

ALBIA;

EID: 0035000774     PISSN: 01956671     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cres.2001.0253     Document Type: Article

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