Biogeochemical evidence for euxinic oceans and ecological disturbance presaging the end-Permian mass extinction event

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 281, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 188-201

  Cao, Changqun ^a   Love, Gordon D ^b   Hays, Lindsay E ^b   Wang, Wei ^a   Shen, Shuzhong ^a   Summons, Roger E ^b  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

biomarker hydrocarbons; Chlorobiaceae; euxinia; extinction; Meishan; Permian Triassic; South China; stable carbon isotopes; strontium

Indexed keywords

CHLOROBIACEAE; EUXINIA; EXTINCTION; MEISHAN; PERMIAN TRIASSIC; SOUTH CHINA; STABLE CARBON ISOTOPES;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOMARKERS; ECOLOGY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; ISOTOPES; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEAN HABITATS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SEA LEVEL; SEAWATER; STRATIGRAPHY; STRONTIUM; SULFUR;

AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOMARKER; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MASS EXTINCTION; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PERMIAN-TRIASSIC BOUNDARY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; MEISHAN; ZHEJIANG;

CHLOROBIACEAE;

EID: 64649102140     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.02.012     Document Type: Article

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