The Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum (PETM) in shallow-marine successions of the Adriatic carbonate platform (SW Slovenia)

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 7-8, 2012, Pages 1071-1086

  Zamagni, Jessica ^a   Mutti, Maria ^a   Ballato, Paolo ^a   Košir, Adrijan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b ANTON MELIK GEOGRAPHICAL INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRIATIC; ADULT DIMORPHISM; BIOLOGICAL PROCESS; CARBON ISOTOPES; CARBONATE PLATFORMS; CENOZOIC; HIGH RESOLUTION; NUTRIENT LEVELS; ORGANIC MATTER OXIDATION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE STRATIGRAPHY; PALEOCENE-EOCENE THERMAL MAXIMUMS; PALEOCLIMATIC RECORD; SEAWATER TEMPERATURE; SHALLOW-WATER; SW SLOVENIA; TWO-STEP PROCESS;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CARBON; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLOBAL WARMING; HYDROGEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SEAWATER; WEATHERING;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY;

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CARBONATE PLATFORM; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; GLOBAL WARMING; HYPSITHERMAL; ORGANIC MATTER; OXIDATION; PALEOCENE-EOCENE BOUNDARY; PALEOCLIMATE; SHALLOW WATER; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; STRATIGRAPHY;

ADRIATIC SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

ALVEOLINIDAE; FORAMINIFERA; NUMMULITIDAE;

EID: 84865190384     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 19432674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B30553.1     Document Type: Article

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