The carbon isotopic response of algae, (cyano)bacteria, archaea and higher plants to the late Cenomanian perturbation of the global carbon cycle: Insights from biomarkers in black shales from the Cape Verde Basin (DSDP Site 367)

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1703-1718

  Damsté, Jaap S Sinninghe ^a,b   Kuypers, Marcel M M ^b   Pancost, Richard D ^b   Schouten, Stefan ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEA; ATLANTIC OCEANS; ATMOSPHERIC CO; BLACK SHALES; CARBON ISOTOPIC COMPOSITIONS; CENOMANIAN; CENOMANIAN/TURONIAN; COMMON SOURCES; FRACTIONATION FACTORS; GLOBAL CARBON CYCLES; HIGHER PLANTS; HOPANES; ISOTOPE EXCURSIONS; OCEANIC ANOXIC EVENTS; ORGANIC CARBON BURIALS; ORGANIC MATTERS; PHYTANE; PRIMARY PRODUCERS; PRISTANE; RUBISCO; STABLE CARBONS; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBONS; WEIGHTED AVERAGES;

ALGAE; BACTERIOLOGY; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CARBON; CARBON BLACK; FIRE HAZARDS; ISOTOPES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PHYTOPLANKTON; SHALE; SULFUR; TURBULENT FLOW;

ORGANIC CARBON;

BIOMARKER; BLACK SHALE; BURIAL (GEOLOGY); CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CENOMANIAN; CHLOROPHYLL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ORGANIC CARBON; PERTURBATION; PLANT; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RECONSTRUCTION; TURONIAN;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CAPE VERDE; MACARONESIA;

ALGAE; CYANOBACTERIA; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 56349093844     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2008.01.012     Document Type: Article

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