Timing and local perturbations to the carbon pool in the lower Mississippian Madison Limestone, Montana and Wyoming

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 256, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 231-253

  Katz, David A ^a   Buoniconti, Matthew R ^a   Montañez, Isabel P ^b   Swart, Peter K ^a   Eberli, Gregor P ^a   Smith, Langhorne B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon isotope stratigraphy; Lower Mississippian; Madison Limestone; Shallow water marine carbonates; Strontium isotopes; Tournaisian (Kinderhookian Osagean)

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; COUPLING; FACIES; LIMESTONE; MISSISSIPPIAN; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PERTURBATION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEAWATER; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE;

MADISON; MONTANA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN; WYOMING;

BRACHIOPODA;

EID: 36249016296     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.02.048     Document Type: Article

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