A global event with a regional character: The Early Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event in the Pindos Ocean (northern Peloponnese, Greece)

Geological Magazine

Volumn 148, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 619-631

  Kafousia, N ^a   Karakitsios, V ^a   Jenkyns, H C ^b   Mattioli, E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

carbon isotopes; Greece; Kastelli Pelites; Pindos Zone; Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; ISOTOPES;

CALCAREOUS NANNOFOSSIL; CARBON ISOTOPES; GREECE; KASTELLI PELITES; MARINE TEMPERATURES; NEGATIVE CARBON ISOTOPE EXCURSIONS; OCEANIC ANOXIC EVENT; ORGANIC-RICH SHALES;

ORGANIC CARBON;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BLACK SHALE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBONATE; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; MASS EXTINCTION; ORGANIC MATTER; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PASSIVE MARGIN; PELITE; TOARCIAN;

GREECE; ITALY; PELOPONNESE; PUGLIA;

AMMONOIDEA;

EID: 79960286923     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: 14695081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756811000082     Document Type: Article

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