Carbon-oxygen isotope signal of Mississippian slope carbonates, Appalachians, USA: A complex response to climate-driven fourth-order glacio-eustasy

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 256, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 254-272

  Wynn, Thomas C ^a   Read, J Fred ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Appalachian Basin; Greenbrier Limestone; Lower Carboniferous; Mississippian; Sequence stratigraphy; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

BRACHIOPOD; DEGLACIATION; DIAGENESIS; FORELAND BASIN; GLACIOEUSTACY; ISOTOPIC RATIO; LIMESTONE; MISSISSIPPIAN; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; STABLE ISOTOPE;

APPALACHIANS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA;

BRACHIOPODA;

EID: 36148966934     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.02.033     Document Type: Article

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