Water column euxinia and wildfire evidence during deposition of the Upper Famennian Hangenberg event horizon from the Holy Cross Mountains (central Poland)

Geological Magazine

Volumn 144, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 569-595

  Marynowski, Leszek ^a   Filipiak, Paweł ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

Author keywords

Hangenberg event; Holy Cross Mountains; Isorenieratane; Palynofacies; Palynology; Photic zone euxinia; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CHARCOAL; FERTILIZERS; FIRES; LANDFORMS; OIL SHALE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; SEA LEVEL;

HANGENBERG EVENT; HOLY CROSS MOUNTAINS; ISORENIERATANE; PALYNOFACIES; PALYNOLOGY; PHOTIC ZONE EUXINIA; WILDFIRE;

SHALE;

BLACK SHALE; DEPOSITION; FAMENNIAN; MIOSPORE; ORGANIC MATTER; PAH; PALYNOLOGY; PHOTIC ZONE; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEDIMENTOLOGY; WATER COLUMN; WILDFIRE;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; POLAND; SWIETOKRZYSKIE; SWIETOKRZYSKIE MOUNTAINS;

RETISPORA; VERRUCOSA; VERRUCOSISPORITES;

EID: 34249109953     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: 14695081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756807003317     Document Type: Article

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