Southern Hemisphere Early Cretaceous (Valanginian-Early Barremian) carbon and oxygen isotope curves from the Neuquén Basin, Argentina

Cretaceous Research

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 87-99

  Aguirre Urreta, María B ^a   Price, Gregory D ^b   Ruffell, Alastair H ^c   Lazo, Darío G ^a   Kalin, Robert M ^c   Ogle, Neil ^c   Rawson, Peter F ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Argentina; Carbon isotopes; Early Cretaceous; Neuqu n Basin; Oxygen isotopes

Indexed keywords

BARREMIAN; CARBON ISOTOPE; FOSSIL; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; OUTCROP; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SEDIMENT CORE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; VALANGINIAN;

ARGENTINA; NEUQUEN BASIN; SOUTH AMERICA;

OSTREIDAE;

EID: 39249085471     PISSN: 01956671     EISSN: 1095998X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2007.04.002     Document Type: Article

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