Redox changes in Early Cambrian black shales at Xiaotan section, Yunnan Province, South China

Precambrian Research

Volumn 225, Issue , 2013, Pages 166-189

  Och, Lawrence M ^a   Shields Zhou, Graham A ^a,b   Poulton, Simon W ^c   Manning, Christina ^d   Thirlwall, Matthew F ^d   Li, Da ^e   Chen, Xi ^e   Ling, Hongfei ^e   Osborn, Tony ^a   Cremonese, Lorenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cambrian Explosion; Iron speciation; Ni Mo sulphide ore; Redox geochemistry; Redox sensitive trace metals; Yangtze Platform

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BLACK SHALE; CAMBRIAN; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; IRON; METAZOAN; MOLYBDENUM; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PROTEROZOIC; REDOX CONDITIONS; SEDIMENTATION; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); TRACE ELEMENT;

CHINA; YANGTZE PLATFORM; YUNNAN;

ANIMALIA; METAZOA;

EID: 84872180120     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2011.10.005     Document Type: Article

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