Photic zone euxinia during the permian-triassic superanoxic event

Science

Volumn 307, Issue 5710, 2005, Pages 706-709

  Grice, Kliti ^a   Cao, Changqun ^b   Love, Gordon D ^c   Böttcher, Michael E ^d   Twitchett, Richard J ^e   Grosjean, Emmanuelle ^c   Summons, Roger E ^c   Turgeon, Steven C ^f   Dunning, William ^a   Jin, Yugan ^b  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^f OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CARBON; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SOCIAL ASPECTS; SULFUR; TOXICITY;

EUXINIC CONDITIONS; PALEOWATER COLUMN; PERMIAN-TRIASSIC SUPERANOXIC EVENT; PHOTIC ZONE EUXINIA;

BIOMARKERS;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CARBON; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; IRON; SULFUR;

EUXINIC ENVIRONMENT;

ANOXIA; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHINA; CHLOROBIACEAE; FIELD EMISSION; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; PERMIAN; PHASE TRANSITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TRIASSIC;

ANAEROBIOSIS; ANIMALS; CARBON ISOTOPES; CHLOROBI; ECOSYSTEM; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; INVERTEBRATES; IRON; ISOTOPES; LIGHT; OCEANS AND SEAS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SEAWATER; SULFIDES; SULFUR ISOTOPES; TIME; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 19944431675     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1104323     Document Type: Article

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