Carbon isotope stratigraphy across the Silurian - Devonian transition in Podolia, Ukraine: Evidence for a global biogeochemical perturbation

Geological Magazine

Volumn 146, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 674-689

  Malkowski K ^a   Racki, G ^a   Drygant, D ^b   Szaniawski, H ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Carbon isotopes; Chemostratigraphy; Devonian; Podolia; Silurian

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CALCITE; CARBON; STRATIGRAPHY;

CARBON ISOTOPES; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; DEVONIANS; PODOLIA; SILURIAN;

ISOTOPES;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BRACHIOPOD; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBONATE SEDIMENT; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; DEVONIAN; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC RATIO; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; SILURIAN;

EASTERN EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; PODOLIA; UKRAINE;

EID: 70349197656     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: 14695081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756809006451     Document Type: Article

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