Compositions, sources and depositional environments of organic matter from the Middle Jurassic clays of Poland

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2456-2485

  Marynowski, Leszek ^a   Zatoń, Michał ^a   Simoneit, Bernd R T ^b   Otto, Angelika ^c   Jedrysek, Mariusz O ^d   Grelowski, Cezary ^e   Kurkiewicz, Slawomir ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

^e PETROGEO   (Poland)

^f MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOMARKERS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); SEDIMENTS;

MOLECULAR COMPOSITION; TERRESTRIAL MATERIAL;

CLAY;

AALENIAN; BIOMARKER; CALLOVIAN; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CLAY; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; ORGANIC MATTER; OXIC CONDITIONS; POINT SOURCE; TRANSPORT PROCESS;

BALTIC SHIELD; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; POLAND;

EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 35448935598     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2007.06.015     Document Type: Article

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