Latest permian mercury anomalies

Geology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 63-66

  Sanei, Hamed ^a,b   Grasby, Stephen E ^a,b   Beauchamp, Benoit ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC EMISSION; HIGH ARCTIC; MARINE SYSTEMS; PERMIAN; SEDIMENTARY RECORDS; SELF-RECOVERY; SIBERIAN TRAPS; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; VOLCANOES;

MERCURY (METAL);

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; DRAWDOWN; EUXINIC ENVIRONMENT; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MASS EXTINCTION; MERCURY (ELEMENT); PALEOENVIRONMENT; PERMIAN; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

CANADA;

EID: 84855431955     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G32596.1     Document Type: Article

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