Nitrogen isotope chemostratigraphy of the Ediacaran and Early Cambrian platform sequence at Three Gorges, South China

Gondwana Research

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1057-1069

  Kikumoto, Ryohei ^a   Tahata, Miyuki ^a   Nishizawa, Manabu ^b   Sawaki, Yusuke ^a   Maruyama, Shigenori ^a   Shu, Degan ^c   Han, Jian ^c   Komiya, Tsuyoshi ^d   Takai, Ken ^a,b   Ueno, Yuichiro ^a,b  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cambrian; Chemostratigraphy; Ediacaran; Nitrogen isotopes

Indexed keywords

CAMBRIAN; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; ORGANIC MATTER; PALEOENVIRONMENT; REMINERALIZATION; TREND ANALYSIS;

CHINA; THREE GORGES;

EID: 84893763036     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2013.06.002     Document Type: Article

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