Stable isotope evidence for meter-scale sea level changes in lower Cretaceous inner platform and pelagic carbonate successions of Turkey

Geologica Carpathica

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 19-36

  Yilmaz, Ismail Ömer ^a   Vennemann, Torsten ^b   Altiner, Demir ^a   Satir, Muharrem ^b  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aptian; Barremian; Cyclicity; Pontides; Sakarya; Stable isotopes; Taurides

Indexed keywords

BLACK SHALE; CARBONATE PLATFORM; CRETACEOUS; MILANKOVITCH CYCLE; PALEOCLIMATE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

EURASIA; TAURIDES; TURKEY;

EID: 1842678499     PISSN: 13350552     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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