Impact of Early Aptian carbon cycle perturbations on evolution of a marine shelf system in the Basque-Cantabrian Basin (Aralar, N Spain)

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 287, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 392-401

  Millan M I ^a   Weissert, H J ^b   Fernandez Mendiola P A ^a   Garcia Mondejar J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

ammonite biostratigraphy; Basque Cantabrian Basin; biocalcification carbonate crisis; Early Aptian; high resolution C isotope record; OAE1a

Indexed keywords

AMMONITE BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BASQUE-CANTABRIAN BASIN; BIOCALCIFICATION CARBONATE CRISIS; EARLY APTIAN; HIGH-RESOLUTION C-ISOTOPE RECORD; OAE1A;

BIODIVERSITY; CARBON BLACK; CARBONATION; ISOTOPES; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SEDIMENTS; STRATIGRAPHY;

ORGANIC CARBON;

AMMONITE; APTIAN; BASIN EVOLUTION; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CALCIFICATION; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBONATE; PERTURBATION; TRANSGRESSION; TYPE SECTION;

BASQUE-CANTABRIAN BASIN; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

AMMONOIDEA; DESHAYESITES;

EID: 70350128812     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.08.023     Document Type: Article

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