Latest Danian carbon isotope anomaly and associated environmental change in the southern Tethys (Nile Basin, Egypt)

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 166, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1135-1142

  Bornemann, André ^a   Schulte, Peter ^b   Sprong, Jorinde ^c   Steurbaut, Etienne ^c,d   Youssef, Mohamed ^e   Speijer, ROBERT P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^e SOUTH VALLEY UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBONATE; CENOZOIC; DANIAN; DEEP SEA; DISSOLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EOCENE; HYPSITHERMAL; LITHOLOGY; PALEOCENE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOGENE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; SURFACE WATER;

AFRICA; NILE BASIN;

EID: 70350576218     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492008-104     Document Type: Article

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