Molecular and isotopic characterization of biomarkers in the Frick Swiss Jura sediments: A palaeoenvironmental reconstruction on the northern Tethys margin

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 419-439

  Schwab, Valérie F ^a   Spangenberg, Jorge E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC PHOTOSYNTHESIS; CARBON ISOTOPE COMPOSITIONS; GREEN SULFUR BACTERIA; SOURCE SPECIFIC HYDROCARBONS;

ALGAE; BACTERIA; CARBON DIOXIDE; HYDROCARBONS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SEDIMENTS; TURBIDITY;

BIOMARKERS;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BACTERIUM; BIOMARKER; CARBON DIOXIDE ENRICHMENT; CARBON ISOTOPE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEPOSITION; HETTANGIAN; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; ORGANIC MATTER; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PHOTOAUTOTROPHY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RECONSTRUCTION; SINEMURIAN; SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIUM; TETHYS;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; JURA MOUNTAINS; SWITZERLAND;

ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLOROBI; CHLOROBIACEAE; CHROMATIACEAE; CYANOBACTERIA; DINOPHYCEAE;

EID: 33847012596     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2006.06.013     Document Type: Article

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