Carbon and oxygen isotopic composition of Lower to Middle Cambrian sediments at Taijiang, Guizhou Province, China

Geological Magazine

Volumn 142, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 723-733

  Guo, Qing Jun ^a   Strauss, Harald ^b   Liu, Cong Qiang ^a   Zhao, Yuan Long ^c   Pi, Dao Hui ^a   Fu, Ping Qing ^a   Zhu, Li Jun ^c   Yang, Rui Dong ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c GUIZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Carbon and oxygen isotopic composition; Chemostratigraphic correlation; China; Lower Middle Cambrian; Sedimentary organic matter

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPES; OXYGEN; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

BACTERIAL BIOMASS; BIOLOGICAL CHANGES; CAMBRIANS; CARBON ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; CHINA; OXYGEN ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; SECULAR VARIATION; SEDIMENTARY ORGANIC MATTER;

ORGANIC CARBON;

CAMBRIAN; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GUIZHOU; TAIJIANG;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 32044454868     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: 14695081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756805001202     Document Type: Article

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