Palaeoceanography of Lower Cretaceous (Barremian-Lower Aptian) black shales from northwest Germany evidenced by calcareous nannofossils and geochemistry

Cretaceous Research

Volumn 42, Issue , 2013, Pages 28-43

  Pauly, Sebastian ^a   Mutterlose, Jörg ^a   Wray, David S ^b  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Barremian; Black shales; Calcareous nannofossils; Depositional environment; Lower Aptian; Major and minor elements; Northwest Germany; Palaeoceanography

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; APTIAN; BARREMIAN; BLACK SHALE; CLAYSTONE; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; GEOCHEMISTRY; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; INLAND SEA; NANOFOSSIL; ORGANIC MATTER; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; REDOX CONDITIONS; STRATIFICATION; TRACE ELEMENT; WATER MASS; WATER TEMPERATURE; WEATHERING RATE;

GERMANY; LOWER SAXONY BASIN; NORTH GERMAN BASIN;

EID: 84875230420     PISSN: 01956671     EISSN: 1095998X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2013.01.001     Document Type: Article

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