Strontium and carbon-isotope chronostratigraphy of Barremian-Aptian shoal-water carbonates: Northern Tethyan platform drowning predates OAE 1a

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 304, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 547-558

  Huck, S ^a   Heimhofer, U ^a   Rameil, N ^b   Bodin, S ^a   Immenhauser, A ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b Neftex Petroleum Consultants Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Barremian Aptian; Black shales; Carbon isotopes; France; Northern Tethys; OAE 1a; Platform drowning; Strontium isotope stratigraphy; Urgonian carbonate platform

Indexed keywords

BARREMIAN-APTIAN; BLACK SHALES; CARBON ISOTOPES; FRANCE; NORTHERN TETHYS; OAE 1A; PLATFORM DROWNING; URGONIAN CARBONATE PLATFORM;

ACCIDENTS; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CARBONATION; ISOTOPES; SHALE; STRONTIUM;

STRATIGRAPHY;

APTIAN; BARREMIAN; BLACK SHALE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBONATE PLATFORM; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; TETHYS;

FRANCE;

EID: 79953036618     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.02.031     Document Type: Article

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