Chromium isotopes in carbonates - A tracer for climate change and for reconstructing the redox state of ancient seawater

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 312, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 114-125

  Frei, R ^a   Gaucher, C ^b   Dossing L N ^a   Sial, A N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS   (Uruguay)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Arroyo del Soldado Group; Carbonates; Chemostratigraphy; Chromium isotopes; Climate change; Ediacaran

Indexed keywords

ARROYO DEL SOLDADO GROUP; CARBON ISOTOPES; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; CLIMATIC CHANGES; COMPOSITIONAL EVOLUTION; CR CONCENTRATION; CR ISOTOPES; CROSS CORRELATIONS; EDIACARAN; GLACIATION PERIOD; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HIGHER LATITUDES; ISOTOPE SIGNATURES; ISOTOPIC TRACER; LINEAR CORRELATION; MAGMATIC SOURCES; MARINE CARBONATES; NEGATIVE VALUES; NEOPROTEROZOIC; NEOPROTEROZOIC BASINS; OXYGEN LEVELS; POSITIVE VALUE; REDOX PROCESS; REDOX STATE; SEALEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SHALLOW OCEAN; URUGUAY; WEATHERING PROCESS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBONATES; CHROMIUM; CHROMIUM COMPOUNDS; EARTH (PLANET); GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; NEODYMIUM; RADIOACTIVE TRACERS; SEAWATER; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; STRONTIUM; WEATHERING;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CARBONATE; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; CHROMIUM; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEGLACIATION; EDIACARAN; GLACIATION; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; RECONSTRUCTION; REDOX CONDITIONS; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; TRACER;

URUGUAY;

EID: 80054993032     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.10.009     Document Type: Article

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