Carbon isotope chemostratigraphy in Arctic Canada: Sea-level forcing of carbonate platform weathering and implications for Hirnantian global correlation

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 234, Issue 2-4, 2006, Pages 186-200

  Melchin, Michael J ^a   Holmden, Chris ^b  

^a ST FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Carbon isotopes; Correlation; Graptolites; Hirnantian; Ordovician

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBONATE PLATFORM; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; GRAPTOLITE; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; SEA LEVEL; WEATHERING;

CANADA; CANADIAN ARCTIC; NORTH AMERICA;

NORMALOGRAPTUS EXTRAORDINARIUS; NORMALOGRAPTUS PERSCULPTUS;

EID: 33747892840     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2005.10.009     Document Type: Article

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