Organic matter and palaeoenvironmental signals during the Early Triassic biotic recovery: The Salt Range and Surghar Range records

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 234, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 19-41

  Hermann, Elke ^a   Hochuli, Peter A ^a   Méhay, Sabine ^b   Bucher, Hugo ^a   Brühwiler, Thomas ^a   Ware, David ^a   Hautmann, Michael ^a   Roohi, Ghazala ^c   ur Rehman, Khalil ^c   Yaseen, Aamir ^c  

^a PALÄONTOLOGISCHES INSTITUT UND MUSEUM   (Switzerland)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c PAKISTAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Early Triassic; Molecular biomarkers; Palaeoenvironment; Palynofacies; Sequence stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR BIOMARKERS; PALAEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOFACIES; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TRIASSIC;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOMARKERS; HYDROCARBONS; ISOTOPES; OIL SHALE; OXYGEN; OXYGENATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

ORGANIC CARBON;

AMMONITE; BIOMARKER; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; MASS EXTINCTION; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTER; PERMIAN-TRIASSIC BOUNDARY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEQUENCE BOUNDARY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TRANSGRESSION-REGRESSION CYCLE;

PAKISTAN; PUNJAB [PAKISTAN]; SALT RANGE;

ACRITARCHA; AMMONOIDEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 78951483604     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2010.11.003     Document Type: Article

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