Large perturbations of the carbon and sulfur cycle associated with the Late Ordovician mass extinction in South China

Geology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 299-302

  Tang, Tonggang ^a   Shen, Yanan ^a   Zhan, Renbin ^b   Shen, Shuzhong ^b   Chen, Xu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; DEEPWATER; GLOBAL OCEAN; HIGH RESOLUTION; MASS EXTINCTION; ORDOVICIAN; SEALEVEL CHANGE; SOUTH CHINA; SULFUR CYCLES;

OCEANOGRAPHY; ORGANIC CARBON; PYRITES; STRATIGRAPHY; SULFUR;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CARBON CYCLE; DEEP WATER; GLACIATION; GLOBAL OCEAN; MASS EXTINCTION; ORDOVICIAN; ORGANIC CARBON; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PERTURBATION; PYRITE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SILURIAN; SULFUR CYCLE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 69649088410     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G25477A.1     Document Type: Article

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