High-resolution carbon isotopic records from the Ordovician of South China: Links to climatic cooling and the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event (GOBE)

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 289, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 102-112

  Zhang, Tonggang ^a   Shen, Yanan ^a   Algeo, Thomas J ^b  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

13Ccarb; 13Corg; Atmospheric CO2; Biodiversification; Climate cooling

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOSPHERE; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; GLACIATION; MASS EXTINCTION; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PERTURBATION;

CHINA;

EID: 77949490968     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.02.020     Document Type: Article

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