An open ocean record of the Toarcian oceanic anoxic event

Solid Earth

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 245-257

  Grocke D R ^a   Hori, R S ^b   Trabucho Alexandre, J ^a   Kemp, D B ^c   Schwark, L ^d  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLACK SHALES; CARBON CYCLES; CARBON ISOTOPE COMPOSITION; CARBON ISOTOPES; DATA SETS; DEEP-MARINE; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; EARLY JURASSIC; GLOBAL CARBON CYCLE; MESOZOIC; OCEANIC ANOXIC EVENT; OPEN OCEAN; SHALLOW MARINE; TIME INTERVAL; CARBON ISOTOPE EXCURSIONS;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CARBON; ISOTOPES; LITHOLOGY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SHALE;

ORGANIC CARBON;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BLACK SHALE; CARBON CYCLE; DATA SET; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; JURASSIC; MESOZOIC; ORGANIC MATTER; PERTURBATION; SEDIMENTARY ROCK;

EID: 84858333146     PISSN: 18699510     EISSN: 18699529     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/se-2-245-2011     Document Type: Article

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