Oxygen and carbon isotopic composition of Silurian brachiopods: Implications for coeval seawater and glaciations

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 110, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1499-1512

  Azmy, Karem ^a   Veizer, Ján ^a,b   Bassett, Michael G ^c   Copper, Paul ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; OXYGEN; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEAWATER; TRACE ELEMENTS; TROPICS;

CARBON ISOTOPES; CARBON ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; HIGH TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; SEALEVEL CHANGE; SILURIAN PERIOD; STANDARD MEAN OCEAN WATERS; TEMPORAL TRENDS; TROPICAL TEMPERATURES;

SEA LEVEL;

CARBON; GLACIATION; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; OXYGEN; PALEOCLIMATE; SEAWATER; SILURIAN;

BRACHIOPODA;

EID: 84879879734     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1998)110<1499:OACICO>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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