Selenium isotope ratios, redox changes and biological productivity across the end-Permian mass extinction

Chemical Geology

Volumn 410, Issue , 2015, Pages 28-39

  Stüeken, Eva E ^a   Foriel, Julien ^a,b   Buick, Roger ^a   Schoepfer, Shane D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Permian Triassic mass extinction; Productivity; Redox; Selenium isotopes

Indexed keywords

BIOSPHERICS; ISOTOPES; OCEANOGRAPHY; SELENIUM; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY;

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTIVITY; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATIONS; NUTRIENT LIMITATIONS; OCEAN CIRCULATION; OXYGEN MINIMUM ZONE; PERMIAN-TRIASSIC MASS EXTINCTIONS; POSITIVE EXCURSION; REDOX;

PRODUCTIVITY;

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; ISOTOPIC RATIO; MARINE SEDIMENT; MASS EXTINCTION; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PERMIAN-TRIASSIC BOUNDARY; REDOX CONDITIONS; SELENIUM;

EID: 84931292251     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2015.05.021     Document Type: Article

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