Deep-sea redox across the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1038-1053

  Pälike, Cecily ^a,b,c   Delaney, Margaret L ^d   Zachos, James C ^d  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE BIK F   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; GLOBAL WARMING; MANGANESE; METHANE; SEDIMENTS;

ENRICHMENT FACTORS; INTERMEDIATE DEPTHS; MEASURE CONCENTRATION; METHANE RELEASE; NORTH ATLANTIC; PALEOCENE-EOCENE THERMAL MAXIMUMS; SOUTHERN OCEAN; TRANSIENT REDUCTION;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BENTHOS; BIOTURBATION; CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE VARIATION; CORE ANALYSIS; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; OXIC CONDITIONS; PALEOATMOSPHERE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCENE-EOCENE BOUNDARY; PALEOCLIMATE; REDOX CONDITIONS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84901323517     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GC005074     Document Type: Article

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