Record of the Late Devonian Hangenberg global positive carbon-isotope excursion in an epeiric sea setting: Carbonate production, organic-carbon burial and paleoceanography during the late Famennian

Special Paper - Geological Association of Canada

Volumn , Issue 48, 2008, Pages 103-118

  Cramer, Bradley D ^a   Saltzman, Matthew R ^a   Day, James E ^b   Witzke, Brian J ^c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Iowa Geological Survey   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLACK SHALE; BURIAL DIAGENESIS; CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DEPOSITION; FAMENNIAN; INLAND SEA; MARINE SEDIMENT; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY;

SIPHONODELLA PRAESULCATA;

EID: 59649112995     PISSN: 00721042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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