Geochemical environment of Cenomanian - Turonian black shale deposition at Wunstorf (northern Germany)

Cretaceous Research

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 480-494

  Hetzel, Almut ^a   März, Christian ^a,b   Vogt, Christoph ^c   Brumsack, Hans Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Black shales; Cenomanian Turonian Boundary Event; Oceanic Anoxic Event 2; Palaeoenvironment; Trace metals; Wunstorf

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BLACK SHALE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CENOMANIAN-TURONIAN BOUNDARY; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; ENRICHMENT; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SEDIMENT BUDGET; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SEDIMENT-WATER INTERFACE; STRATIFICATION; TRACE METAL; VERTICAL MIXING;

GERMANY; LOWER SAXONY; WUNSTORF;

EID: 79956346262     PISSN: 01956671     EISSN: 1095998X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2011.03.004     Document Type: Article

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