Paleoenvironmental and carbon-oxygen isotope record of Middle Cambrian carbonates (La Laja Formation) in the Argentine Precordillera

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 77, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 826-842

  Gomez, Fernando J ^a   Ogle, Neil ^b   Astini, Ricardo A ^a   Kalin, Robert M ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATES; CARBONATION; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; ORGANIC CARBON; OXYGEN; SEA LEVEL; STRATIGRAPHY;

CAMBRO-ORDOVICIAN; CARBONATE PLATFORMS; CARBONATE SEDIMENTATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL; OXYGEN ISOTOPE RECORDS; POSITIVE EXCURSION; RELATIVE SEA LEVEL; STRATIGRAPHIC DEVELOPMENT;

LANTHANUM;

CAMBRIAN; CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBONATE PLATFORM; DEPOSITION; ORDOVICIAN; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SILICICLASTIC DEPOSIT;

GLOSSOPLEURA;

EID: 35448947531     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2007.079     Document Type: Article

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