Marine biogeochemical cycling during the early Cambrian constrained by a nitrogen and organic carbon isotope study of the Xiaotan section, South China

Precambrian Research

Volumn 225, Issue , 2013, Pages 148-165

  Cremonese, Lorenzo ^a,b   Shields Zhou, Graham ^a,c   Struck, Ulrich ^b   Ling, Hong Fei ^d   Och, Lawrence ^a   Chen, Xi ^d   Li, Da ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTION AND BIODIVERSITY SCIENCE   (Germany)

^c Nanjing University ^*  (China)

^d NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chemocline; Nitrogen isotopes; Nutrient cycles; Precambrian Cambrian boundary; Yangtze Platform

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CAMBRIAN; CARBON ISOTOPE; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; DENITRIFICATION; EDIACARAN; LITHOLOGY; NITROGEN FIXATION; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOPRODUCTIVITY; PRECAMBRIAN-CAMBRIAN BOUNDARY; SEDIMENTATION RATE; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; TREND ANALYSIS;

CHINA; YANGTZE PLATFORM;

EID: 84872201655     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2011.12.004     Document Type: Article

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