Bottom water anoxia, inoceramid colonization, and benthopelagic coupling during black shale deposition on Demerara Rise (Late Cretaceous western tropical North Atlantic)

Paleoceanography

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Berrocoso, Álvaro Jiménez ^a   MacLeod, Kenneth G ^a   Calvert, Stephen E ^b   Elorza, Javier ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOXIA; BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; COLONIZATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; OXYGENATION; PALEONTOLOGY; POREWATER; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SHALE; SHELL; SURFACE WATER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; DEMERARA RISE;

FORAMINIFERA; INOCERAMIDAE;

EID: 54949118701     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007PA001545     Document Type: Article

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