Water mass denitrification during the latest Permian extinction in the Sverdrup Basin, Arctic Canada

Geology

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 167-170

  Knies, Jochen ^a   Grasby, Stephen E ^b,c   Beauchamp, Benoit ^c   Schubert, Carsten J ^d  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^d SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROBIOSIS; ARCTIC CANADA; C/N RATIO; EUXINIC CONDITIONS; LATE PERMIAN; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; OXYGEN MINIMUM ZONE; PALEO-TETHYS; PERMIAN; PHOTIC ZONE EUXINIA; SIBERIAN TRAPS; TRIASSIC; VOLCANICS; WATER MASS;

BIOMARKERS; COAL ASH; ISOTOPES; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

DENITRIFICATION;

BIOMARKER; CARBON ISOTOPE RATIO; DENITRIFICATION; EXTINCTION; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; PERMIAN; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; TRIASSIC; WATER MASS;

CANADA; NUNAVUT; SVERDRUP BASIN;

EID: 84873420418     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G33816.1     Document Type: Article

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