Editorial: The New Zealand carbon cycle: from regional budget to global cycle

Tying platform drowning to perturbations

Tying platform drowning to perturbations of the global carbon cycle with a δ13COrg-curve from the Valanginian of DSDP Site 416

✍ Ulrich G. Wortmann; Helmut Weissert 📂 Article 📅 2000 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 337 KB

The carbonate carbon isotope record of the Phanerozoic is marked by repeated high‐amplitude excursions towards more positive values. Although the interpretation of C‐isotope events remains controversial, they are regarded as a proxy of the global C‐cycle. Using δ^13^C~Org~‐measurements of samples fr