Irreversible change of the oceanic carbon cycle in the earliest Cambrian: High-resolution organic and inorganic carbon chemostratigraphy in the Three Gorges area, South China

Precambrian Research

Volumn 225, Issue , 2013, Pages 190-208

  Ishikawa, Tomoko ^a   Ueno, Yuichiro ^a   Shu, Degan ^b   Li, Yong ^c   Han, Jian ^b   Guo, Junfeng ^c   Yoshida, Naohiro ^a   Komiya, Tsuyoshi ^a,d  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CHANG'AN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carbon cycle; Carbon isotope ratios; Chemostratigraphy; Pc C boundary

Indexed keywords

CAMBRIAN; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON FLUX; CARBON ISOTOPE RATIO; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; CORE ANALYSIS; DRILLING; INORGANIC CARBON; METAZOAN; ORGANIC CARBON; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PRECAMBRIAN-CAMBRIAN BOUNDARY; PROTEROZOIC; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REMINERALIZATION; ZOOPLANKTON;

CHINA; THREE GORGES;

ANIMALIA; METAZOA;

EID: 84872202163     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2011.10.004     Document Type: Article

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