Paleoecology and geochemistry of early triassic (spathian) microbial mounds and implications for anoxia following the end-permian mass extinction

Geology

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 715-718

  Marenco, Pedro J ^a   Griffin, Julie M ^a   Fraiser, Margaret L ^b   Clapham, Matthew E ^c  

^a BRYN MAWR COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE CONDITIONS; END-PERMIAN; MASS EXTINCTION; PALEOECOLOGY; TOTAL SULFUR; TRIASSIC;

REEFS; SULFUR;

ECOLOGY;

ALKALINE ENVIRONMENT; ANOXIA; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BURROW; GEOCHEMISTRY; LIMESTONE; MASS EXTINCTION; MICROBIALITE; ORGANIC CARBON; PALEOECOLOGY; PERMIAN; REEF; SULFUR; TRIASSIC;

NEVADA; UNITED STATES;

METAZOA;

EID: 84866152761     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G32936.1     Document Type: Article

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