The response of marine phytoplankton and sedimentary organic matter to the early Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) oceanic anoxic event in northern England

Marine Micropaleontology

Volumn 46, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 223-245

  Bucefalo Palliani, Raffaella ^a   Mattioli, Emanuela ^b   Riding, James B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biostratigraphy; Calcareous nannofossils; Dinoflagellate cysts; Geochemistry; Lower Jurassic; Palaeoceanography

Indexed keywords

ANOXIA; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; DINOFLAGELLATE CYST; GEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; JURASSIC; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOECOLOGY;

UNITED KINGDOM;

ALGAE; AMMONOIDEA; BISCUTUM; BISCUTUM FINCHII; DACTYLIOCERAS; DINOPHYCEAE;

EID: 0036842909     PISSN: 03778398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-8398(02)00064-6     Document Type: Article

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