Climate and sea-level variations along the northwestern Tethyan margin during the Valanginian C-isotope excursion: Mineralogical evidence from the Vocontian Basin (SE France)

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 302, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 243-254

  Duchamp Alphonse, Stéphanie ^a   Fiet, Nicolas ^a,b   Adatte, Thierry ^c   Pagel, Maurice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^b AREVA NP   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Climate changes; Greenhouse conditions; Positive c isotope shift; Sea level changes; Tethys; Valanginian

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE VARIATION; FLOOD BASALT; GREENHOUSE ECOSYSTEM; HYDROLYSIS; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; MINERALOGY; NANOFOSSIL; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PERTURBATION; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TETHYS; VALANGINIAN;

FRANCE; VOCONTIAN TROUGH;

AMMONOIDEA; STEPHANOPHORUS;

EID: 79952738071     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.01.015     Document Type: Article

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