Proximate environmental forcing in fine-scale geochemical records of calcareous couplets (Upper Cretaceous and Palaeocene of the Basque-Cantabrian Basin, eastern North Atlantic)

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 284-285, Issue , 2013, Pages 76-90

  Jiménez Berrocoso, Álvaro ^a   Elorza, Javier ^b   MacLeod, Kenneth G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternating climates; Basque Cantabrian Basin; Calcareous couplets; Late Cretaceous and Palaeocene; Oxygen and carbon stable isotopes; Oxygen rich water masses

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATING CLIMATES; BASQUE-CANTABRIAN BASIN; CALCAREOUS COUPLETS; CARBON STABLE ISOTOPES; LATE CRETACEOUS; WATER MASS;

CALCIUM CARBONATE; ISOTOPES; OXYGEN; SEA LEVEL; SEAWATER; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

GEOCHEMISTRY;

CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE FORCING; CRETACEOUS; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DIAGENESIS; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCENE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STABLE ISOTOPE; TECTONIC SETTING; TIMESCALE; TRANSGRESSION; WATER MASS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); BASQUE-CANTABRIAN BASIN; SPAIN;

EID: 84873056997     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2012.11.007     Document Type: Article

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