Fluvial discharge and sea-level changes controlling black shale deposition during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum in the Dababiya Quarry section, Egypt

Chemical Geology

Volumn 285, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 167-183

  Schulte, Peter ^a   Scheibner, Christian ^b   Speijer, Robert P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Carbon cycle; Continental shelf; Eocene; Hyperthermal; Ocean acidification; Sequence stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLES; CONTINENTAL SHELF; EOCENE; HYPERTHERMAL; OCEAN ACIDIFICATION; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CARBONATION; DISSOLUTION; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; MOLYBDENUM; OXYGENATION; PHOSPHORUS; QUARRIES; QUARTZ; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SHALE; STRATIGRAPHY; TRACE ELEMENTS; WATER LEVELS;

ORGANIC CARBON;

ACIDIFICATION; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BLACK SHALE; CARBON CYCLE; CONTINENTAL SHELF; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; PALEOCENE-EOCENE BOUNDARY; RIVER DISCHARGE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENTATION; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TETHYS; TYPE SECTION;

DABABIYA QUARRY; EGYPT; QENA;

EID: 79957514895     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2011.04.004     Document Type: Article

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