Secular change in northwestern Tethyan water-mass oxygenation during the late Hauterivian-early Aptian

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 374, Issue , 2013, Pages 121-131

  Bodin, Stéphane ^a   Godet, Alexis ^b   Westermann, Stéphane ^c   Föllmi, Karl B ^b  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aptian OAE 1a; Barremian; Cerium anomaly; Rare Earth Elements; Redox conditions

Indexed keywords

APTIAN OAE 1A; BARREMIAN; LONG-TERM EVOLUTION; OCEAN STRATIFICATION; OCEANIC ANOXIC EVENTS; PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; REDOX CONDITION; RELATIVE SEA LEVEL;

MANGANESE REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); NUTRIENTS; OCEAN CURRENTS; OXYGEN; OXYGENATION; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; SEA LEVEL; STRATIGRAPHY; WATER LEVELS;

CERIUM;

APTIAN; BARREMIAN; CERIUM; HAUTERIVIAN; OXYGEN; OXYGENATION; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; REDOX CONDITIONS; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEAWATER; SECULAR VARIATION; TETHYS; WATER MASS;

FRANCE; VOCONTIAN TROUGH;

EID: 84880583724     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.05.030     Document Type: Article

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