Carbon-isotope composition of Lower Cretaceous fossil wood: Ocean-atmosphere chemistry and relation to sea-level change

Geology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 155-158

  Gröcke, Darren R ^a   Hesselbo, Stephen P ^a   Jenkyns, Hugh C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; ISOTOPES; STRATIGRAPHY; WOOD;

CARBON ISOTOPE COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LOWER CRETACEOUS; MARINE CARBONATES; OCEAN ATMOSPHERE; POSITIVE EXCURSION; RELATIVE SEA-LEVEL CHANGES; SEAFLOOR SPREADING;

SEA LEVEL;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CARBON ISOTOPE RATIO; FOSSIL; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; WOOD;

ISLE OF WIGHT; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84874965604     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1999)027<0155:CICOLC>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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