Organic carbon burial following the middle Eocene climatic optimum in the central western Tethys

Paleoceanography

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Spofforth, D J A ^a,b   Agnini, C ^c   Palike H ^a   Rio, D ^c   Fornaciari, E ^c   Giusberti, L ^c   Luciani, V ^d   Lanci, L ^e   Muttoni, G ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b Neftex Petroleum Consultants   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM WATER; CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; EOCENE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ORGANIC CARBON; PALEOCLIMATE; PYRITE; STABLE ISOTOPE; TETHYS; TRACE METAL;

ITALY;

EID: 77956070614     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009PA001738     Document Type: Article

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