Pyrite framboid study of marine Permian-Triassic boundary sections: A complex anoxic event and its relationship to contemporaneous mass extinction

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 7-8, 2010, Pages 1265-1279

  Bond, David P G ^a   Wignall, Paul B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC EVENTS; BENTHIC INVERTEBRATES; EUXINIA; EUXINIC CONDITIONS; GREENLAND; MASS EXTINCTION; OXYGEN-POOR; PERMIAN-TRIASSIC BOUNDARY; SHALLOW-WATER; SIZE ANALYSIS; SPITSBERGEN; STORM WAVES; WATER DEPTH; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; DISSOLUTION; OCEANOGRAPHY;

DISSOLVED OXYGEN;

ANOXIA; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BENTHOS; DEPOSITION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; INVERTEBRATE; MASS EXTINCTION; OOLITE; PALEOLATITUDE; PERMIAN-TRIASSIC BOUNDARY; PYRITE;

ARCTIC; AUSTRALIA; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

HINDEODUS PRAEPARVUS; INVERTEBRATA; ISARCICELLA ISARCICA;

EID: 77249110960     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B30042.1     Document Type: Article

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