Episodic photic zone euxinia in the northeastern Panthalassic Ocean during the end-Triassic extinction

Geology

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 307-310

  Kasprak, Alex H ^a   Sepúlveda, Julio ^b,h   Price Waldman, Rosalyn ^a   Williford, Kenneth H ^c   Schoepfer, Shane D ^d   Haggart, James W ^e   Ward, Peter D ^f   Summons, Roger E ^b   Whiteside, Jessica H ^g  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^g NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN; OCEANOGRAPHY;

EUKARYOTIC ALGAE; EXTINCTION MECHANISM; MARINE PRODUCTIVITY; NITROGEN ISOTOPIC; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PHOTIC ZONE EUXINIA; POTENT MECHANISM; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE;

BIOMARKERS;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; EUXINIC ENVIRONMENT; FOSSIL RECORD; MASS EXTINCTION; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PHANEROZOIC; PHOTIC ZONE; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; TRIASSIC;

CANADA;

ALGAE; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 84948614462     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G36371.1     Document Type: Article

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