Oceanic euxinia in Earth history: Causes and consequences

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 36, Issue , 2008, Pages 251-288

  Meyer, Katja M ^a   Kump, Lee R ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anoxia; Geochemical proxies; Mass extinction; Ocean circulation; Phosphorus cycle; Sulfur cycle

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTIVITY; CONTINENTAL (CO); EUXINIC CONDITIONS; FEEDBACKS]; MASS EXTINCTIONS; NUTRIENT RECYCLING; NUTRIENT SUPPLY; OCEAN CONDITIONS; OXYGEN DEPLETION; PERMIAN; PHOSPHATE RELEASE; PRIMARY FACTORS; SULFATE REDUCTION; SULFIDE BUILDUP; TRAPPING REGIONS; WARM CONDITIONS;

COMPETITION; CONTROL THEORY; FAULT DETECTION; FEEDBACK; HISTORY; MILITARY DATA PROCESSING; OXYGEN; OXYGEN SUPPLY; SEDIMENTATION; SULFATE MINERALS; ZINC SULFIDE;

NUTRIENTS;

ANOXIA; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; EARTH; EUXINIC ENVIRONMENT; MASS EXTINCTION; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OXYGEN; PERMIAN; PHANEROZOIC; PHOSPHORUS CYCLE; REDUCTION; SOLUBILITY; SULFUR CYCLE;

EID: 45849128290     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.earth.36.031207.124256     Document Type: Article

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