Mo isotope and trace element patterns of Lower Cambrian black shales in South China: Multi-proxy constraints on the paleoenvironment

Chemical Geology

Volumn 318-319, Issue , 2012, Pages 45-59

  Xu, Lingang ^a,b   Lehmann, Bernd ^a   Mao, Jingwen ^b   Nägler, Thomas F ^c   Neubert, Nadja ^d   Böttcher, Michael E ^e   Escher, Peter ^e  

^a CLAUSTHAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^e LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Black shales; Lower Cambrian; Molybdenum isotopes; Paleoenvironment; South China; Trace elements

Indexed keywords

BLACK SHALES; CAMBRIANS; MOLYBDENUM ISOTOPES; PALEO-ENVIRONMENT; SOUTH CHINA;

BIOLOGY; ISOTOPES; ORE DEPOSITS; SEAWATER; SEDIMENTS; SHALE; TRACE ELEMENTS;

MOLYBDENUM;

BLACK SHALE; EUXINIC ENVIRONMENT; GEOCHEMISTRY; IRON; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MARINE SEDIMENT; MOLYBDENUM; ORE DEPOSIT; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PRECAMBRIAN-CAMBRIAN BOUNDARY; SEAWATER; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); TRACE ELEMENT;

CHINA; YANGTZE PLATFORM;

EID: 84861992626     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2012.05.016     Document Type: Article

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