Stable carbon isotope patterns of marine biomarker lipids in the Arctic Ocean during Eocene Thermal Maximum 2

Paleoceanography

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Schoon, Petra L ^a   Sluijs, Appy ^b   Sinninghe Damsté, Jaap S ^a,c   Schouten, Stefan ^a,c  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b Biomarine Sciences Laboratory of Palaeobotany and Palynology Institute of Environmental Biology ^*  (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; BIOMARKER; BOTTOM WATER; CARBON ISOTOPE; EOCENE; GLOBAL WARMING; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; LIPID; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PHOTOAUTOTROPHY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANKTON; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; STABLE ISOTOPE; SULFUR;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

HAPTOPHYCEAE;

EID: 80052216084     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010PA002028     Document Type: Article

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