Chapter 8Productivity and bottom water redox conditions at the Frasnian-Famennian boundary on both sides of the Eovariscan Belt: constraints from trace-element geochemistry

Developments in Palaeontology and Stratigraphy

Volumn 20, Issue C, 2005, Pages 199-224

  Riquier, Laurent ^a   Tribovillard, Nicolas ^a   Averbuch, Olivier ^a   Joachimski, Michael M ^b   Racki, Grzegorz ^c   Devleeschouwer, Xavier ^d   El albani, Abderrazzak ^e   Riboulleau, Armelle ^a  

^a UNIV LILLE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^d ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

Author keywords

anoxia; eutrophication; inorganic geochemistry; Late Frasnian; primary productivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746410969     PISSN: 09205446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0920-5446(05)80008-1     Document Type: Article

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