Depositional setting and geochemistry of phosphorites and metalliferous black shales in the carboniferous-permian lisburne group, northern Alaska

US Geological Survey Professional Paper

Volumn , Issue 1776 C, 2011, Pages 1-30

  Dumoulin, Julie A ^a   Slack, John F ^a   Whalen, Michael T ^b   Harris, Anita G ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE CONSTRAINTS; BLACK SHALES; BOTTOM WATER; DEPOSITIONAL SETTING; FORAMINIFERS; GEOCHEMICAL DATA; GRAVITY FLOWS; LAND PLANTS; NEGATIVE CE ANOMALY; NORTHERN ALASKA; OXYGEN CONTENT; PALEOGEOGRAPHIC SETTING; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PHOSPHOGENESIS; REDEPOSITION; SEDIMENT STARVATION; SOURCE ROCKS; UPWELLING REGIMES; WEIGHT PERCENT;

DEPOSITS; GAMMA RAYS; GEOCHEMISTRY; OXYGENATION; PHOSPHATE DEPOSITS; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; SEAWATER; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SHALE; SILICA; STRATIGRAPHY; ZINC;

COPPER;

AGE CLASS; BIOCLASTIC ROCK; BIOGENIC DEPOSIT; BLACK SHALE; BOTTOM WATER; CARBONATE; CARBONIFEROUS; CHERT; CONODONT; DATA SET; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FACIES; GEOCHEMISTRY; GONIATITE; GRAVITY FLOW; IRON; MASSIVE SULFIDE; MUD; OXYGEN; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PALEONTOLOGY; PERMIAN; PHOSPHATE ROCK; PHOSPHOGENESIS; PHOSPHORITE; SEAWATER; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SOURCE ROCK; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBOXIC CONDITIONS; VASCULAR PLANT;

ALASKA; ARCTIC; UNITED STATES;

CANIS FAMILIARIS; CEPHALOPODA; EMBRYOPHYTA; FORAMINIFERA; GONIATITIDA; KUNA; RADIOLARIA (PROTOZOANS);

EID: 84862638932     PISSN: 10449612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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