Echinoderm skeletal preservation: Calcite-aragonite seas and the Mg/Ca ratio of Phanerozoic oceans

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 355-365

  Dickson, J A D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCITE; MAGNESITE; MAGNESIUM;

AVERAGE COMPOSITION; EARLY CAMBRIANS; FLUID INCLUSION; GEOCHEMICAL MODELS; MG/CA RATIOS; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; SECULAR VARIATION; TIME INTERVAL;

SEAWATER;

ARAGONITE; CALCITE; ECHINODERM; GEOCHEMISTRY; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PHANEROZOIC; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); SEAWATER;

EID: 2542480981     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1306/112203740355     Document Type: Article

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