Were transgressive black shales a negative feedback modulating glacioeustasy in the Early Palaeozoic Icehouse?

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 123-156

  Page, A A ^a,b   Zalasiewicz, J A ^a   Williams, M ^a   Popov, L E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BLACK SHALE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GLACIATION; GLACIOEUSTACY; LITHOFACIES; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOZOIC; REDOX CONDITIONS; REGRESSION; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS; TRANSGRESSION-REGRESSION CYCLE;

EID: 38549164784     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/tms002.6     Document Type: Article

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