The late Hauterivian Faraoni "Oceanic Anoxic Event" At Río Argos (southern Spain): An assessment on the level of oxygen depletion

Chemical Geology

Volumn 340, Issue , 2013, Pages 77-90

  Sauvage, Ludivine ^a,c   Riquier, Laurent ^a,b   Thomazo, Christophe ^a   Baudin, François ^b   Martinez, Mathieu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Carbon Cycle; Faraoni Event; Iron cycle; Late Hauterivian; OAE; Oxygen Concentration variations

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLES; FARAONI EVENT; IRON CYCLE; LATE HAUTERIVIAN; OAE; OXYGEN CONCENTRATIONS;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CARBONATES; ISOTOPES; MANGANESE; METALLIC COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PRODUCTIVITY; ZIRCONIUM;

OXYGEN;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BOTTOM WATER; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBONATE; DILUTION; HAUTERIVIAN; HYDROCHEMISTRY; IRON; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; ORGANIC MATTER; OVERPRINTING; OXYGEN; REDOX CONDITIONS; RIVER WATER; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; TRACE METAL; WATER MASS;

ARGOS RIVER; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MURCIA [SPAIN]; SPAIN;

EID: 84873863578     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2012.12.004     Document Type: Article

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