Paleoenvironments of the latest Cretaceous oil shale sequence, Southern Tethys, Israel, as an integral part of the prevailing upwelling system

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 305, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 93-108

  Ashckenazi Polivoda, Sarit ^a   Abramovich, Sigal ^a   Almogi Labin, Ahuva ^b   Schneider Mor, Aya ^a   Feinstein, Shimon ^a   Püttmann, Wilhelm ^c   Berner, Zsolt ^d  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^c Institutes of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biostratigraphy; Late Cretaceous upwelling system; Oil shale; Planktic and benthic foraminifera; Southern Tethys

Indexed keywords

AERATION; BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BOTTOM WATER; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CRETACEOUS; DEPOSITION; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MARL; MESOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; NANOFOSSIL; OIL SHALE; OXYGENATION; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; POREWATER; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEAFLOOR; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SURFACE WATER; TETHYS; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; TRACER; UPWELLING;

ISRAEL; NEGEV; SOUTHERN DISTRICT;

FORAMINIFERA; GLOBIGERINELLOIDES; HETEROHELICIDAE; INOCERAMIDAE; ROTALIIDAE;

EID: 79955469242     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.02.018     Document Type: Article

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