Orbital forcing of organic carbon burial in the proto-North Atlantic during oceanic anoxic event 2

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 228, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 465-482

  Kuypers, Marcel M M ^a,c   Lourens, Lucas J ^b   Rijpstra, W Irene C ^a   Pancost, Richard D ^a,d   Nijenhuis, Ivar A ^b,e   Sinninghe Damsté, Jaap S ^a,b  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^e EPT AGI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biomarkers; Black shales; Cenomanian; Cretaceous; OAE2; Oceanic anoxic event; Orbital forcing; Organic carbon burial; Paleoceanography; Photic zone anoxia; Trace metals; Turonian

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC MATTER (OC); TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON (TOC);

BIOMARKERS; CARBON; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; LITHOLOGY; PYROLYSIS; STRATIGRAPHY;

CALCIUM;

ANOXIA; BURIAL (GEOLOGY); CENOMANIAN-TURONIAN BOUNDARY; ORBITAL FORCING; ORGANIC CARBON; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 10644289530     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2004.09.037     Document Type: Article

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