Dating and characterization of polymorphic transformation of aragonite to calcite in pleistocene bivalves from rhodes (Greece) by combined shell microstructure, stable isotope, and electron spin resonance study

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 79, Issue 5-6, 2009, Pages 332-346

  Titschack, Jürgen ^a   Radtke, Ulrich ^b   Freiwald, André ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCITE; CARBONATE MINERALS; ELECTRONS; ELECTROSPINNING; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; MICROSTRUCTURE; MOLLUSCS; REEFS; RESONANCE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); SPIN DYNAMICS;

ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE DATING; LATE PLEISTOCENE; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGES; OXYGEN STABLE ISOTOPES; POLYMORPHIC TRANSFORMATION; SEDIMENTARY EVOLUTION; STABLE ISOTOPES; STABLE-ISOTOPE ANALYSIS;

ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY;

ARAGONITE; BIVALVE; CALCITE; CLIFF; DIAGENESIS; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE DATING; MICROSTRUCTURE; PLEISTOCENE; RED ALGA; REEF; STABLE ISOTOPE; TRANSGRESSION; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

DODECANESE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; RHODES; SOUTHERN AEGEAN; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ALGAE; BIVALVIA;

EID: 67949087905     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2009.037     Document Type: Article

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