Disentangling the Hettangian carbon isotope record: Implications for the aftermath of the end-Triassic mass extinction

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Bartolini, A ^a   Guex, J ^b   Spangenberg, J E ^b   Schoene, B ^c   Taylor, D G ^d   Schaltegger, U ^e   Atudorei, V ^f  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Department of Geosciences Princeton University 219 Guyot Hall ^*  (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

biological crisis; carbon cycle; recovery; stable isotopes; Triassic Jurassic

Indexed keywords

CARBON; ECOSYSTEMS; ISOTOPES; RECOVERY;

AMMONITE BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BIOLOGICAL CRISIS; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON CYCLES; CARBON ISOTOPES; CENTRAL ATLANTIC MAGMATIC PROVINCES; HIGH ORGANIC; JURASSIC; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MASS EXTINCTION; NEGATIVE SHIFT; ORGANIC CARBON STABLE ISOTOPES; POSITIVE EXCURSION; SECOND PHASE; STABLE ISOTOPES; TRIASSIC; TRIASSIC-JURASSIC;

ORGANIC CARBON;

AMMONITE; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON ISOTOPE; JURASSIC; MASS EXTINCTION; ORGANIC CARBON; STABLE ISOTOPE; TRIASSIC; VOLCANISM;

AMMONOIDEA;

EID: 84855918300     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GC003807     Document Type: Article

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