Coupled and decoupled responses of continental and marine organic-sedimentary systems through the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum, New Jersey margin, USA

Paleoceanography

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 105-115

  Schneider Mor, Aya ^a   Bowen, Gabriel J ^a,b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

coastal processes; mineral bound organic matter; organic matter burial and preservation; particulate organic matter; PETM; sediment

Indexed keywords

BURIAL (GEOLOGY); CLIMATE VARIATION; GLOBAL CHANGE; HYPSITHERMAL; MARINE SEDIMENT; ORGANIC CARBON; PALEOCENE-EOCENE BOUNDARY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTER; PERTURBATION; PRESERVATION;

NEW JERSEY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84876699886     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: 19449186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/palo.20016     Document Type: Article

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