Evidence for major environmental perturbation prior to and during the Toarcian (Early Jurassic) oceanic anoxic event from the Lusitanian Basin, Portugal

Paleoceanography

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Suan, Guillaume ^a   Mattioli, Emanuela ^a   Pittet, Bernard ^a   Mailliot, Samuel ^a   Lécuyer, Christophe ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE DE FRANCE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONITE; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BIOTIC FACTOR; BRACHIOPOD; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBONATE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; NANOFOSSIL; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLIENSBACHIAN; SHELL; TOARCIAN;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; EURASIA; EUROPE; LEIRIA [PORTUGAL]; LISBOA [PORTUGAL]; LUSITANIAN BASIN; PENICHE; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

AMMONOIDEA; SCHIZOSPHAERELLA;

EID: 39549121146     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007PA001459     Document Type: Article

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