Sulfur isotope evidence for widespread euxinia and a fluctuating oxycline in Early to Middle Ordovician greenhouse oceans

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 313-314, Issue , 2012, Pages 189-214

  Thompson, Cara K ^a   Kah, Linda C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon isotopes; Euxinia; Greenhouse; Ordovician; Sulfur isotopes

Indexed keywords

ANOXIA; CARBON ISOTOPE; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; DEEP WATER; GEOCHEMICAL METHOD; HETEROGENEITY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; ORDOVICIAN; OXYGENATION; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PROTEROZOIC; REDOX CONDITIONS; SULFIDE; SULFUR ISOTOPE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84855831866     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.10.020     Document Type: Article

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