Palaeoenvironmental and palaeoceanographic controls on black, laminated mudrock deposition: Example from Devonian-Carboniferous strata, Alberta, Canada

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 145, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 45-72

  Caplan, Mark L ^a,b   Marc Bustin, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b TOTAL   (France)

Author keywords

Alberta; Black shales; Devonian Carboniferous; Paleoceanography; Productivity

Indexed keywords

DEVONIAN-CARBONIFEROUS BOUNDARY; LAMINATION; MUDSTONE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SEDIMENTATION; SHELF SEDIMENT; SILTSTONE; UPWELLING;

EID: 0035194193     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0037-0738(01)00116-6     Document Type: Article

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