Environmental changes across the Triassic-Jurassic boundary and coeval volcanism inferred from elemental geochemistry and mineralogy in the Kendlbachgraben section (Northern Calcareous Alps, Austria)

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 335-336, Issue , 2012, Pages 121-134

  Pálfy, József ^a,b   Zajzon, Norbert ^c  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b Institute and Museum of Military History Budapest   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISKOLC   (Hungary)

Author keywords

End Triassic extinction; Micromineralogy; Northern Calcareous Alps; Rare earth elements; Redox sensitive elements; Triassic Jurassic boundary

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC WATER; AUSTRIA; CARBON ISOTOPES; CENTRAL ATLANTIC MAGMATIC PROVINCES; DATA SETS; DIRECT LINKS; ELEMENTAL GEOCHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GREENHOUSE CONDITIONS; JURASSIC; MAGMATIC MATERIALS; MARINE STRATA; MASS EXTINCTION; MICROMINERALOGY; MINERAL SPECTRA; NORTHERN CALCAREOUS ALPS; SEDIMENT/WATER INTERFACES; SMECTITES; SPHERICAL GRAINS; TRIASSIC; TRIASSIC-JURASSIC BOUNDARY; VOLCANIC ASH FALLOUT; VOLCANIC GLASS;

CARBON; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ISOTOPES; KAOLINITE; MINERALOGY; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; SEDIMENTATION; SILICATE MINERALS; STRATIGRAPHY; VOLCANOES;

WEATHERING;

CARBON ISOTOPE; CLAY MINERAL; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GRABEN; JURASSIC; MAFIC ROCK; MASS EXTINCTION; MINERALOGY; MUDSTONE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PSEUDOMORPH; PYRITE; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; REDOX CONDITIONS; TRACE ELEMENT; TRIASSIC; VOLCANIC ASH; VOLCANISM;

ALPS; AUSTRIA;

EID: 84862265957     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.01.039     Document Type: Article

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