Paleotemperature variations of Early Jurassic seawater recorded in geochemical trends of belemnites from the Basque-Cantabrian basin, northern Spain

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 203, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 253-275

  Rosales, Idoia ^a   Quesada, Santiago ^b   Robles, Sergio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b REPSOL YPF   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anoxic events; Jurassic; Northern Spain; Oxygen isotopes; Paleotemperatures

Indexed keywords

ANOXIA; BELEMNITE; JURASSIC; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOTEMPERATURE;

BASQUE COUNTRY; CANTABRIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

DACTYLIOCERAS TENUICOSTATUM; PLEUROCERAS;

EID: 1242322145     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(03)00686-2     Document Type: Article

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