Oxygen and carbon isotope analysis of the Mooreville Chalk and late Santonian-early Campanian sea level and sea surface temperature changes, northeastern Gulf of Mexico, U.S.A.

Cretaceous Research

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 980-990

  Liu, Kaiyu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon isotope; Gulf of Mexico; Mooreville Chalk; Oxygen isotope; Sea surface water temperature; Sea level changes

Indexed keywords

CAMPANIAN; CARBON ISOTOPE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; SANTONIAN; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; TRANSGRESSION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO;

EID: 67349099434     PISSN: 01956671     EISSN: 1095998X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2009.02.008     Document Type: Article

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