Isotopic composition of organic and inorganic carbon from the Mesoproterozoic Jixian Group, North China: Implications for biological and oceanic evolution

Precambrian Research

Volumn 224, Issue , 2013, Pages 169-183

  Guo, Hua ^a,b   Du, Yuansheng ^a   Kah, Linda C ^b   Huang, Junhua ^a   Hu, Chaoyong ^a   Huang, Hu ^a   Yu, Wenchao ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon isotopes; Mesoproterozoic; North China; Ocean oxygenation; Organic carbon

Indexed keywords

CARBON FIXATION; CARBON ISOTOPE; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DISSOLVED INORGANIC CARBON; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; ORGANIC CARBON; OXYGENATION; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PROTEROZOIC; SHALLOW WATER; STRATIFICATION;

CHINA;

EID: 84867744745     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2012.09.023     Document Type: Article

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