Oxygen-carbon isotope stratigraphy of upper carboniferous to lower permian marine deposits in midcontinent U.S.A. (Kansas and NE Oklahoma): Implications for sea water chemistry and depositional cyclicity

Carbonates and Evaporites

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 55-72

  Mazzullo, S J ^a   Boardman, Darwin R ^b   Grossman, Ethan L ^c   Dimmick Wells, Kimberly ^a,d  

^a WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Woolsey Operating Company   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARIDITY; CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBONIFEROUS; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; GLACIATION; GLACIOEUSTACY; GONDWANA; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PERMIAN; SALINITY; SEAWATER; STRATIGRAPHY;

KANSAS; NORTH AMERICA; OKLAHOMA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

VIRGILIA;

EID: 34347402985     PISSN: 08912556     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03175846     Document Type: Article

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