Are beds in shelf carbonates millennial-scale cycles? An example from the mid-Carboniferous of northern England...

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 214, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 19-34

  Tucker, Maurice E ^a   Gallagher, James ^a   Leng, Melanie J ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Beds; Carboniferous; Milankovitch rhythms; Millennial scale cycles; Northern England; Solar forcing; Yoredale cyclothems

Indexed keywords

BEDFORM; CARBONATE SEDIMENT; CARBONIFEROUS; CLASTIC SEDIMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CYCLOTHEM; MILANKOVITCH CYCLE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENT THICKNESS; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SHELF SEDIMENT; TRACE ELEMENT; TRANSGRESSION;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 61449161053     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2008.03.011     Document Type: Article

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