Continental margin molybdenum isotope signatures from the early Eocene

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 404, Issue , 2014, Pages 389-395

  Dickson, Alexander J ^a,b   Cohen, Anthony S ^a   Coe, Angela L ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Molybdenum isotopes; Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum; Redox; Tethys

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS; ISOTOPES; MANGANESE; MANGANESE REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); MOLYBDENUM; MOLYBDENUM DEPOSITS; RIVERS; SEAWATER; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; ISOTOPE COMPOSITIONS; MARINE SEDIMENTS; MOLYBDENUM ISOTOPES; PALEOCENE-EOCENE THERMAL MAXIMUMS; REDOX; SEDIMENTARY DEPOSITS; TETHYS;

MOLYBDENUM OXIDE;

ADSORPTION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DISSOLUTION; EOCENE-OLIGOCENE BOUNDARY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MARINE SEDIMENT; MOLYBDENUM; PALEOCENE-EOCENE BOUNDARY; REDOX CONDITIONS; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; TETHYS;

GEORGIA (REPUBLIC); TAJIKISTAN;

EID: 84924350933     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2014.08.004     Document Type: Article

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