The mid-Cretaceous North Atlantic nutrient trap: Black shales and OAEs

Paleoceanography

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Trabucho Alexandre, João ^a   Tuenter, Erik ^b   Henstra, Gijs A ^a,c   Van Der Zwan, Kees J ^d   Van De Wal, Roderik S W ^b   Dijkstra, Henk A ^b   De Boer, Poppe L ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Shell Technology India Private Limited   (Netherlands)

^d Shell Technology India Private Limited   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BASALT; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; BLACK SHALE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE MODELING; CRETACEOUS; DEPOSITION; HYDROTHERMAL ACTIVITY; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; SEDIMENTATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; UPWELLING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 77957709394     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010PA001925     Document Type: Article

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