Cretaceous Pelagic red beds and black shales (Aptian-Santonian), NW Turkey: Global oceanic anoxic and oxic events

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 263-296

  Yilmaz, Ismail Ömer ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Black shales; Cretaceous; Cyclostratigraphy; Global anoxic and oxic events; NW Turkey; Red beds; Sedimentology; Sequence stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

ALBIAN; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BLACK SHALE; CENOMANIAN-TURONIAN BOUNDARY; CYCLOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PELAGIC DEPOSIT; RED BED; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; SYSTEMS TRACT; TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHY; TRANSGRESSION;

ANKARA [TURKEY]; EURASIA; NALLIHAN; SAKARYA; TURKEY;

BIVALVIA; CONIACIAN; ECHINOIDEA; FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 41949120755     PISSN: 13000985     EISSN: 1303619X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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