A multilayered water column in the Ediacaran Yangtze platform? Insights from carbonate and organic matter paired δ13C

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 288, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 213-227

  Ader, M ^a   Macouin, M ^b   Trindade, R I F ^c   Hadrien, M H ^a   Yang, Z ^d,e   Sun, Z ^e   Besse, J ^f  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

^f INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

Doushantuo Formation; methanogenesis; Neoproterozoic; ocean stratification; organic carbon isotopes

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM WATER; CAP DOLOSTONES; CARBON ISOTOPES; CARBONATE ROCK; DISSOLVED INORGANIC CARBON; DOUSHANTUO FORMATION; EDIACARAN; LATERAL HETEROGENEITY; LATERAL VARIATIONS; METHANOGENESIS; MULTILAYERED WATER; NEOPROTEROZOIC; OCEAN STRATIFICATION; OCEAN SURFACES; ORGANIC MATTER; ORGANIC MATTER OXIDATION; POSITIVE EXCURSION; SOUTH CHINA; STRATIFIED WATERS; SULPHATE REDUCTION; SULPHATES; SURFACE LAYERS; THREE-LAYER;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CARBONATES; DISSOLUTION; ISOTOPES; METHANE; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE WATERS;

ORGANIC CARBON;

CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBONATE ROCK; DISSOLVED INORGANIC CARBON; DOLOSTONE; EDIACARAN; HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; METHANOGENESIS; ORGANIC MATTER; OXIDATION; STRATIFICATION; WATER COLUMN;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; YANGTZE PLATFORM;

EID: 70350749403     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.09.024     Document Type: Article

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