Duration of the Early Toarcian carbon isotope excursion deduced from spectral analysis: Consequence for its possible causes

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 267, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 666-679

  Suan, Guillaume ^a   Pittet, Bernard ^a   Bour, Ivan ^a   Mattioli, Emanuela ^a   Duarte, Luis V ^b   Mailliot, Samuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

carbon cycle; cyclostratigraphy; Jurassic; Toarcian oceanic anoxic event

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CYCLOSTRATIGRAPHIC TIMESCALE; JURASSIC; ORBITAL CALIBRATION;

CARBON; ESTIMATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; ISOTOPES; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STRATIGRAPHY;

GEOCHEMISTRY;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BLACK SHALE; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CYCLOSTRATIGRAPHY; DATA SET; METHANE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PERTURBATION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TIMESCALE; TOARCIAN; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BADEN-WURTTEMBERG; CENTRAL EUROPE; DOTTERNHAUSEN; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; LEIRIA [PORTUGAL]; PENICHE; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 39549119337     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.12.017     Document Type: Article

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