Lower Permian brachiopods from Oman: Their potential as climatic proxies

Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Volumn 98, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 327-344

  Angiolini, Lucia ^a   Darbyshire, D P F ^b   Stephenson, M H ^b   Leng, M J ^b,c   Brewer, T S ^d   Berra, F ^a   Jadoul, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbon; Cathodoluminescence; Geochemistry; Gondwana deglaciation; Haushi basin; Late Sakmarian; Oxygen; Strontium isotopes; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

EID: 54749155933     PISSN: 17556910     EISSN: 17556929     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1755691008075634     Document Type: Article

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