Major oceanic redox condition change correlated with the rebound of marine animal diversity during the Late Ordovician

Geology

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 675-678

  Zhang, Tonggang ^a   Trela, Wieslaw ^b   Jiang, Shao Yong ^c   Nielsen, Jesper K ^a   Shen, Yanan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b POLISH GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITIONAL CONDITION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC DATA; LATE ORDOVICIAN; MARINE ANIMALS; MULTIPLE PROXIES; REDOX CONDITION; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON;

ANIMALS; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BIODIVERSITY; ISOTOPES; OXYGENATION;

ORGANIC CARBON;

BIODIVERSITY; BOTTOM WATER; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC RATIO; ORDOVICIAN; REDOX CONDITIONS; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON;

POLAND;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 79960042299     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G32020.1     Document Type: Article

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