The relationships between Late Ordovician sea-level changes and faunal turnover in western Baltica: Geochemical evidence of oxic and dysoxic bottom-water conditions

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 271, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 268-278

  Hansen, Jesper ^a   Nielsen, Jesper Kresten ^b   Hanken, Nils Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b SINTEF PETROLEUM RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Anoxicity; Brachiopods; Norway; Ordovician; Sea level changes; Trace elements

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM WATER; BRACHIOPOD; FAUNA; GEOCHEMISTRY; IMMIGRATION; MUDSTONE; OPHIOLITE; ORDOVICIAN; OXIC CONDITIONS; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TRACE ELEMENT;

BALTIC REGION; EURASIA;

BRACHIOPODA;

EID: 58149199594     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2008.10.022     Document Type: Article

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