A molecular evaluation of bulk organic carbon-isotope chemostratigraphy for terrestrial correlations: An example from two Paleocene-Eocene tropical sequences

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 277, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 173-183

  Carvajal Ortiz, H ^a   Mora, G ^a   Jaramillo, C ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Carbon isotope chemostratigraphy; Diagenesis; Geochemical biomarker ratios; Late Cretaceous Early Eocene; Terrestrial derived organic matter

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKER; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; CRETACEOUS; DIAGENESIS; EOCENE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; ORGANIC CARBON; PALEOCENE; PLANT COMMUNITY;

COLOMBIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EMBRYOPHYTA; GYMNOSPERMAE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 67349128681     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.03.015     Document Type: Article

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