Stable carbon isotope stratigraphy in the Ordovician of South China

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 307, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 17-43

  Munnecke, Axel ^a   Zhang, Yuandong ^b   Liu, Xiao ^b   Cheng, Junfeng ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Graptolites; Ordovician; South China; Stable carbon isotopes; Stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; CORRELATION; DATA SET; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOENVIRONMENT; RESOLUTION; SLOPE; STABLE ISOTOPE; STRATIGRAPHY;

CHINA;

EID: 79960397920     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.04.015     Document Type: Article

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