Carbon, oxygen, and strontium isotope geochemistry of carbonate rocks of the upper Miocene Kudankulam Formation, southern India: Implications for paleoenvironment and diagenesis

Chemie der Erde

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 45-60

  Armstrong Altrin, John S ^a   Lee, Yong Il ^b   Verma, Surendra P ^a   Worden, Richard H ^c  

^a INSTITUTO DE ENERGÍAS RENOVABLES   (Mexico)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Limestone; Palaeovegetation; Petrography; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBONATE ROCK; DIAGENESIS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC RATIO; LIMESTONE; MARINE SEDIMENT; MIOCENE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PETROGRAPHY; STABLE ISOTOPE; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; KUDANKULAM; SOUTH ASIA; TAMIL NADU;

EID: 60849118369     PISSN: 00092819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemer.2008.09.002     Document Type: Article

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