Spike of pyrosynthetic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons associated with an abrupt decrease in δ13C of a terrestrial biomarker at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary at Caravaca, Spain

Geology

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 723-726

  Arinobu, Tetsuya ^a,d   Ishiwatari, Ryoshi ^a   Kaiho, Kunio ^b   Lamolda, Marcos A ^c  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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

^d GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKERS; MINERAL OILS;

ABOVE GROUND BIOMASS; CARBON MASS BALANCE; CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGHER PLANTS; ISOTOPIC SHIFT; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS (PAHS); TERRESTRIAL BIOMARKERS;

POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS;

BIOMARKER; CARBON ISOTOPE; CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; PAH;

SPAIN;

EID: 84874958094     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1999)027<0723:SOPPAH>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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