Warming and environmental changes in the eastern North Sea Basin during the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum as revealed by biomarker lipids

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 78, Issue , 2015, Pages 79-88

  Schoon, Petra L ^a   Heilmann Clausen, Claus ^b   Schultz, Bo Pagh ^c   Sinninghe Damsté, Jaap S ^a   Schouten, Stefan ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c MUSERUM ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

CIE; N Alkanes; PETM; Photic zone euxinia; Warming

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKERS; CARBON; ISOTOPES; ORGANIC CARBON; PARAFFINS; SURFACE WATERS;

CIE; N-ALKANES; PETM; PHOTIC ZONE EUXINIA; WARMING;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BIOMARKER; CARBON ISOTOPE; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; HYPSITHERMAL; INLAND SEA; LIPID; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCENE-EOCENE BOUNDARY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOTEMPERATURE; STABLE ISOTOPE; WARMING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; DENMARK; NORTH SEA;

EID: 84913553703     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2014.11.003     Document Type: Article

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