The Upper Valanginian (Early Cretaceous) positive carbon-isotope event recorded in terrestrial plants

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 240, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 495-509

  Gröcke, Darren R ^a   Price, Gregory D ^b   Robinson, Stuart A ^c   Baraboshkin, Evgenij Y ^d   Mutterlose, Jörg ^e   Ruffell, Alastair H ^f  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^d MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^e RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^f QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbon isotopes; Early Cretaceous; Icehouse; OAE; Plants; Valanginian

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; FRACTIONATION; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; ISOTOPES; OCEANOGRAPHY; PLANTS (BOTANY); STRATIGRAPHY;

AMMONITE BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CARBON ISOTOPES; FOSSIL PLANT MATERIAL; TERRESTRIAL PLANTS;

GEOCHEMISTRY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CRETACEOUS; PALEOATMOSPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT;

AMMONOIDEA;

EID: 28044473863     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.09.001     Document Type: Article

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