Interpreting the carbon-isotope record of ancient shallow epeiric seas: Lessons from the recent

Special Paper - Geological Association of Canada

Volumn , Issue 48, 2008, Pages 137-174

  Immenhauser, Adrian ^a   Holmden, Chris ^b   Patterson, William P ^b  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

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Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBONATE PLATFORM; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; CRETACEOUS; INLAND SEA; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PENNSYLVANIAN;

EID: 59649115238     PISSN: 00721042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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