Constraints on palaeoenvironments in the Lower Cretaceous Wealden of southern England, from the geochemistry of sphaerosiderites

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 167, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 303-311

  Robinson, Stuart A ^a   Scotchman, James I ^a   White, Timothy S ^b   Atkinson, Tim C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOHYDROLOGY; SIDERITE;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 77649142574     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492009-100     Document Type: Article

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