Evolution of Tethyan phosphogenesis along the northern edges of the Arabian-African shield during the Cretaceous-Eocene as deduced from temporal variations of Ca and Nd isotopes and rates of P accumulation

Earth-Science Reviews

Volumn 78, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 27-57

  Soudry, D ^a   Glenn, C R ^b   Nathan, Y ^a   Segal, I ^a   VonderHaar, D ^b  

^a Geological Survey of   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

44 42Ca; Nd(T); Cretaceous Eocene; deep water formation; P accumulation rates; paleoceanography; phosphogenesis; south Tethys margins; TCC

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATE; BASIN EVOLUTION; CALCIUM; CRETACEOUS; DEEP WATER FORMATION; EOCENE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; NEODYMIUM; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PHOSPHOGENESIS; PHOSPHORUS; SEDIMENTATION RATE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WEATHERING;

AFRICA; ARABIAN PENINSULA; ARABIAN SHIELD; ASIA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST; NORTH AFRICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

CONIACIAN;

EID: 33748078154     PISSN: 00128252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2006.03.005     Document Type: Review

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