Time-specific black mudstones and global hyperwarming on the Cambrian-Ordovician slope and shelf of the Laurentia palaeocontinent

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 367-368, Issue , 2012, Pages 256-272

  Landing, Ed ^a  

^a NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM   (United States)

Author keywords

Black shale; Cambrian; Global hyperwarming; Ocean oxygenation; Ordovician

Indexed keywords

ANOXIA; BLACK SHALE; CAMBRIAN; CARBON DIOXIDE; COLD WATER; DEEP SEA; EUSTACY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; INSOLATION; LAURENTIA; MUDSTONE; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; ORDOVICIAN; OXYGENATION; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; SILICICLASTIC DEPOSIT; SOLUBILITY; THERMAL EXPANSION; TRANSGRESSION; WARMING; WATER MASS;

EID: 84859467153     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.09.005     Document Type: Article

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