The Upper Ordovician Guttenberg δ 13 C excursion (GICE) in North America and Baltoscandia: Occurrence, chronostratigraphic significance, and paleoenvironmental relationships

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 466, Issue , 2010, Pages 37-67

  Bergström, Stig M ^a   Schmitz, Birger ^b   Saltzman, Matthew R ^a   Huff, Warren D ^c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTONITE; CARBON; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES;

BATHYMETRIC CONDITIONS; CONODONT ZONE; LITHOFACIES; OKLAHOMA; ORDOVICIAN; SEALEVEL CHANGE; SPECIFIC ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; WATER TEMPERATURES;

SEA LEVEL;

BATHYMETRY; BENTONITE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; CONODONT; GLACIATION; GONDWANA; GRAPTOLITE; HIRNANTIAN; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

CHINA; NORTH AMERICA;

AMORPHOGNATHUS; CHITINOZOA; PHRAGMODUS; PLECTODINA; SPINACHITINA;

EID: 77952999129     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2010.2466(04)     Document Type: Article

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