Lower Cretaceous (Aptian-Albian) secular changes in the oxygen and carbon isotope record from high paleolatitude, fluvial sediments, southeast Australia: Comparisons to the marine record

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 332, Issue , 1999, Pages 59-72

  Ferguson, Kurt M ^a   Gregory, Robert T ^a   Constantine, Andrew ^b  

^a SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BUDGET CONTROL; CALCITE; CARBON; CEMENTS; ISOTOPES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SEDIMENTS;

CARBONATE CONCRETION; GLOBAL TEMPERATURE CHANGE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE COMPOSITION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE RECORDS; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; STANDARD MEAN OCEAN WATERS; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TERRESTRIAL SEDIMENTS;

OXYGEN;

ALBIAN; APTIAN; CARBON ISOTOPE; CRETACEOUS; MARINE RECORD; METEORIC WATER; ORGANIC MATTER; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOLATITUDE;

EID: 84870900389     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2332-9.59     Document Type: Article

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