Palaeoenvironment of Northwestern India during the late Cretaceous Deccan volcanic episode from trace-element and stable-isotope geochemistry of intertrappean ostracod shells

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 107, Issue , 2013, Pages 82-90

  Bajpai, Sunil ^a,e   Holmes, Jonathan ^b   Bennett, Carys ^c   Mandal, Nivedita ^a,e   Khosla, Ashu ^d  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIV LILLE   (France)

^d PANJAB UNIVERSITY   (India)

^e BIRBAL SAHNI INSTITUTE OF PALAEOBOTANY   (India)

Author keywords

Cretaceous; Deccan; Ostracod; Stable isotope; Trace element

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS; CRETACEOUS; DECCAN; FRESHWATER BODIES; GEOCHEMICAL SIGNATURES; OSTRACOD; PALAEOENVIRONMENTAL RECONSTRUCTION; STABLE ISOTOPES;

ANIMALS; BASALT; EXPLORATORY GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPES;

TRACE ELEMENTS;

CRETACEOUS; GEOCHEMICAL SURVEY; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MASS EXTINCTION; OSTRACOD; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SEAWATER; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; STABLE ISOTOPE; TIMESCALE; TRACE ELEMENT; VOLCANISM;

ASSAM; INDIA; LAKHIMPUR;

EID: 84878188538     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2013.04.011     Document Type: Article

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