Lithium-isotope evidence for enhanced silicate weathering during OAE 1a (Early Aptian Selli event)

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 432, Issue , 2015, Pages 210-222

  Lechler, Maria ^a   Pogge von Strandmann, Philip A E ^b   Jenkyns, Hugh C ^c   Prosser, Giacomo ^a   Parente, Mariano ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Li isotopes; OAE 1a; Selli event; Silicate weathering

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; GLOBAL WARMING; ISOTOPES; LITHIUM; ORGANIC CARBON; SILICATES; STRONTIUM; TEMPERATURE;

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTIVITY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LI ISOTOPES; LOW TEMPERATURE ALTERATION; NEGATIVE CARBON ISOTOPE EXCURSIONS; ORGANIC CARBON BURIAL; SELLI EVENT; SILICATE WEATHERING;

WEATHERING;

APTIAN; CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBONATE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC RATIO; LITHIUM; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SILICATE; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; WEATHERING;

EID: 84944876552     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2015.09.052     Document Type: Article

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