Palaeoenvironmental significance of organic facies and stable isotope signatures: The Ladinian San Giorgio Dolomite and Meride Limestone of Monte San Giorgio (Switzerland, WHL UNESCO)

Sedimentology

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 239-269

  Stockar, Rudolf ^a,b   Adatte, Thierry ^a   Baumgartner, Peter O ^a   Föllmi, Karl B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b Museo Cantonale di Storia Naturale   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ladinian; Microbial carbonates; Monte San Giorgio; Organic matter; Oxygen and carbon stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; CARBON STABLE ISOTOPES; CARBONATE PRECIPITATION; EPIFLUORESCENCES; GEOCHEMICAL PROXIES; GEOCHEMICAL SIGNATURES; LADINIAN; MICROBIAL ACTIVITIES; MONTE SAN GIORGIO; OPTICAL DATA; ORGANIC FACIES; RELATIVE SEA LEVEL; ROCK-EVAL; STABLE CARBON; STABLE ISOTOPES; SWITZERLAND; TESTING GROUNDS; TRANSMITTED LIGHT MICROSCOPY; UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL , SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATION; VERTEBRATE FOSSILS; VOLCANIC ACTIVITIES;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CARBON; HYDROGEN; ISOTOPES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; OXYGEN; PRODUCTIVITY; RUNOFF; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

LIMESTONE;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBONATE GROUP; FACIES ANALYSIS; GEOACCUMULATION; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LADINIAN; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ORGANIC MATTER; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STABLE ISOTOPE; TAPHONOMY;

MONTE SAN GIORGIO; SWITZERLAND; TICINO;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EMBRYOPHYTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84872772849     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/sed.12021     Document Type: Article

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