Permian Gondwanaland paleoenvironment inferred from carbon and oxygen isotope records of brachiopod fossils from Sydney Basin, southeast Australia

Chemical Geology

Volumn 291, Issue , 2012, Pages 87-103

  Mii, Horng sheng ^a   Shi, G R ^b   Cheng, Chih jen ^a   Chen, Yun yung ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Brachiopod; Carbon and oxygen isotopes; Gondwanaland; Permian

Indexed keywords

AGE CONTROL; AUSTRALIA; BRACHIOPOD; CARBON ISOTOPES; CATHODOLUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; ELEMENTAL COMPOSITIONS; GONDWANALAND; HIGH LATITUDES; LOW LATITUDES; OXYGEN ISOTOPE RECORDS; OXYGEN ISOTOPE VALUES; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; PALEO-ENVIRONMENT; PERMIAN; SILTSTONES; SOUTHEAST AUSTRALIA; SOUTHEASTERN AUSTRALIA; SOUTHERN LATITUDES; TEMPERATURE CONDITIONS;

CARBON; ELECTRON PROBE MICROANALYSIS; OXYGEN; SEAWATER; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); TROPICS;

ISOTOPES;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BRACHIOPOD; CARBON ISOTOPE; FOSSIL RECORD; GONDWANA; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PERMIAN;

AUSTRALIA;

BRACHIOPODA;

EID: 84855440780     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2011.10.002     Document Type: Article

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