Major environmental change and bonebed genesis prior to the triassic-jurassic mass extinction

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 169, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 191-200

  Suan, Guillaume ^a,b   Föllmi, Karl B ^a   Adatte, Thierry ^a   Bomou, Brahimsamba ^a   Spangenberg, Jorge E ^a   van de Schootbrugge, Bas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM ALLOYS; ISOTOPES; LITHOLOGY;

CARBON ISOTOPE EXCURSIONS; CENTRAL ATLANTIC MAGMATIC PROVINCES; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS; SEDIMENTARY ORGANIC MATTER; SEDIMENTOLOGICAL DATA; SEDIMENTOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; TRIASSIC-JURASSIC BOUNDARY;

ORGANIC CARBON;

CARBON CYCLE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GEOCHEMISTRY; JURASSIC; MASS EXTINCTION; ORGANIC MATTER; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PETROGENESIS; PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHATIZATION; REDOX CONDITIONS; RHAETIAN; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHIC BOUNDARY; STRATIGRAPHY; VERTEBRATE; WATER COLUMN;

SOUTH WALES; UNITED KINGDOM; WALES;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84857820298     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492011-045     Document Type: Article

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