Organic carbon isotope gradient and ocean stratification across the late Ediacaran-Early Cambrian Yangtze Platform

Science China Earth Sciences

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 919-929

  Wang, XinQiang ^a,b   Shi, XiaoYing ^a,b   Jiang, GanQing ^c   Tang, DongJie ^a,b  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Early Cambrian; late Ediacaran; ocean stratification; organic carbon isotopes; South China

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CARBONATES; ISOTOPES; OCEANOGRAPHY;

CARBON ISOTOPES; EARLY CAMBRIANS; EDIACARAN; OCEAN STRATIFICATION; SOUTH CHINA;

ORGANIC CARBON;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BLACK SHALE; CAMBRIAN; CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBONATE ROCK; CHERT; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; EDIACARAN; ORGANIC MATTER; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SPATIAL VARIATION; STRATIFICATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

CHINA; YANGTZE PLATFORM;

EID: 84899954719     PISSN: 16747313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11430-013-4732-0     Document Type: Article

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