Organic carbon production and preservation in response to sea-level changes in the Turonian Carlile Formation, U.S. Western Interior Basin

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 235, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 223-244

  White, Timothy ^a   Arthur, Michael A ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carlile Formation; Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway; Rock Eval hydrogen index; Sea level highstands; Sequence stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CARLIN-TYPE DEPOSIT; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; LITHOLOGY; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; NEPHELOID LAYER; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; ORGANIC CARBON; PELAGIC DEPOSIT; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENTATION; SHALLOW WATER; STRATIFICATION; TURONIAN; WATER COLUMN;

COLORADO; IOWA; KANSAS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN INTERIOR; WESTERN INTERIOR SEAWAY;

AMMONOIDEA;

EID: 33747708845     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2005.09.031     Document Type: Article

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