A new upper Middle Ordovician-Lower Silurian drillcore standard succession from Borenshult in Östergötland, southern Sweden: 2. Significance of δ 13C chemostratigraphy

GFF

Volumn 134, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 39-63

  Bergström, Stig M ^a   Lehnert, Oliver ^b   Calner, Mikael ^c   Joachimski, Michael M ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

13C chemostratigraphy; Borenshult fauna; Guttenberg excursion; Hirnantian excursion; Middle and Upper Ordovician; regional correlation

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CARBON ISOTOPE; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; CORRELATION; ORDOVICIAN; SILURIAN;

OSTERGOTLAND; SWEDEN;

EID: 84859649980     PISSN: 11035897     EISSN: 20000863     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11035897.2012.657231     Document Type: Article

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