Bio-chemostratigraphy of the Barremian-Aptian shallow-water carbonates of the southern Apennines (Italy): Pinpointing the OAE1a in a Tethyan carbonate platform

Solid Earth

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-28

  Di Lucia, M ^a   Trecalli, A ^b   Mutti, M ^a   Parente, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APENNINES; CARBON ISOTOPE STRATIGRAPHY; CARBON ISOTOPES; CARBONATE PLATFORMS; DEEPWATER; MESOZOIC; OCEANIC ANOXIC EVENT; SHALLOW-WATER; SOUTHERN ITALY; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE STRATIGRAPHY;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CALIBRATION; CARBON; ISOTOPES; STRONTIUM;

CARBONATES;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; APTIAN; BARREMIAN; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBONATE PLATFORM; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; ORGANIC MATTER; SHALLOW WATER; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE;

APENNINES; ITALY;

ORBITOLINA; PALORBITOLINA LENTICULARIS;

EID: 84861462294     PISSN: 18699510     EISSN: 18699529     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/se-3-1-2012     Document Type: Article

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