Fertility changes in surface waters during the Aalenian (mid-Jurassic) of the Western Tethys as revealed by calcareous nannofossils and carbon-cycle perturbations

Marine Micropaleontology

Volumn 68, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 268-285

  Aguado, Roque ^a   O'Dogherty, Luis ^b   Sandoval, José ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

^b CASEM   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aalenian; Calcareous nannofossils; Carbon oxygen isotopes; Palaeoceanography; Radiolarians; Western Tethys

Indexed keywords

AALENIAN; ABUNDANCE; BAJOCIAN; CARBON CYCLE; FERTILITY; JURASSIC-CRETACEOUS BOUNDARY; NANOFOSSIL; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PERTURBATION; RADIOLARIA; SURFACE WATER; TETHYS; TOARCIAN;

BETIC CORDILLERA; EURASIA; EUROPE; IBERIAN PENINSULA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

AMMONOIDEA; BISCUTUM; CARINOLITHUS; CARINOLITHUS SUPERBUS; CREPIDOLITHUS CRASSUS; LOTHARINGIUS; RADIOLARIA (PROTOZOANS); SCHIZOSPHAERELLA; WATZNAUERIA;

EID: 49049121818     PISSN: 03778398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marmicro.2008.06.001     Document Type: Article

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