Marine carbon burial flux and the carbon isotope record of Late Cretaceous (Coniacian-Santonian) Oceanic Anoxic Event III

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 235, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 38-49

  Locklair, Robert ^a   Sageman, Bradley ^a   Lerman, Abraham ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon burial; Carbon isotopes; Cretaceous; Oceanic anoxic events

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPES; STRATIGRAPHY;

CARBON ISOTOPE EXCURSIONS; CARBON ISOTOPE STRATIGRAPHY; CARBON ISOTOPES; CRETACEOUS; ISOTOPIC MASS BALANCE MODEL; OCEANIC ANOXIC EVENT; ORGANIC MATTER BURIAL; STRATIGRAPHIC INTERVALS;

ORGANIC CARBON;

BURIAL (GEOLOGY); CARBON FLUX; CARBON ISOTOPE; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; CRETACEOUS; GEOACCUMULATION; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; ORGANIC CARBON; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY;

CONIACIAN;

EID: 79955003749     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2010.06.026     Document Type: Article

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