Organic-carbon deposition in the Cretaceous of the Ionian Basin, NW Greece: The Paquier Event (OAE 1b) revisited

Geological Magazine

Volumn 141, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 401-416

  Tsikos, Harilaos ^a   Karakitsios, Vasilios ^b   van Breugel, Yvonne ^c   Walsworth Bell, Ben ^d   Bombardiere, Luca ^e   Petrizzo, Maria Rose ^d   Sinninghe Damsté, Jaap S ^c   Schouten, Stefan ^c   Erba, Elisabetta ^d   Premoli Silva, Isabella ^d   Farrimond, Paul ^e   Tyson, Richard V ^e   Jenkyns, Hugh C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^e NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Albian; Carbon; Cretaceous; Isotopes; Stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CARBON; GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPES; LIME; OIL SHALE; SHALE; STRATIGRAPHY;

ALBIAN; CALCAREOUS NANNOFOSSIL; CRETACEOUS; GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTIC; MOLECULAR SIGNATURES; OCEANIC ANOXIC EVENT; ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON;

ORGANIC CARBON;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BLACK SHALE; CRETACEOUS; ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION;

IONIAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 3843077731     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756804009409     Document Type: Article

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