Total organic carbon, organic phosphorus, and biogenic barium fluxes as proxies for paleomarine productivity

SD Schoepfer, J Shen, H Wei, RV Tyson, E Ingall… - Earth-Science …, 2015 - Elsevier
Although marine productivity is a key parameter in the global carbon cycle, reliable
estimation of productivity in ancient marine systems has proven difficult. In this study, we …

Marine productivity changes during the end-Permian crisis and Early Triassic recovery

J Shen, SD Schoepfer, Q Feng, L Zhou, J Yu… - Earth-Science …, 2015 - Elsevier
The latest Permian mass extinction (LPME) coincided with major changes in the composition
of marine plankton communities, yet little is known about concurrent changes in primary …

Calibration of XRF core scanners for quantitative geochemical logging of sediment cores: Theory and application

GJ Weltje, R Tjallingii - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2008 - Elsevier
On-line analysis of split sediment cores by XRF core scanners has become increasingly
popular in the past decade, because it allows nondestructive extraction of near-continuous …

Twenty years of XRF core scanning marine sediments: what do geochemical proxies tell us?

RG Rothwell, I Croudace - Micro-XRF Studies of Sediment Cores …, 2015 - Springer
XRF core scanners, with their rapid and non-destructive analytical capability, have now
been used for two decades in the analysis of marine sediments. Initially they were used to …

Depositional environment and organic matter accumulation of Upper Ordovician–Lower Silurian marine shale in the Upper Yangtze Platform, South China

Y Li, T Zhang, GS Ellis, D Shao - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2017 - Elsevier
The main controlling factors of organic matter accumulation in the Upper Ordovician Wufeng–
Lower Silurian Longmaxi Formations are complex and remain highly controversial. This …

Preservation of organic matter in shale linked to bacterial sulfate reduction (BSR) and volcanic activity under marine and lacustrine depositional environments

Q Liu, P Li, Z **, X Liang, D Zhu, X Wu, Q Meng… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2021 - Elsevier
Black organic-rich shale is a sedimentary product of strongly reducing environmental water
bodies, and is the main source of shale oil and gas. During its formation, the presence of …

Tracing bottom water oxygenation with sedimentary Mn/Fe ratios in Lake Zurich, Switzerland

S Naeher, A Gilli, RP North, Y Hamann, CJ Schubert - Chemical Geology, 2013 - Elsevier
Redox dynamics of manganese (Mn) were studied in the sediment of Lake Zurich using
precise sediment core age models, monthly long-term oxygen (O 2) monitoring data of the …

Applying sedimentary geochemical proxies for paleoenvironment interpretation of organic-rich shale deposition in the Sichuan Basin, China

J Zhao, Z **, Z **, Y Geng, X Wen, C Yan - International Journal of Coal …, 2016 - Elsevier
Depositional environment highly affects the geochemical feature of sediments recording the
information of paleoenvironment and its evolution. Geochemical data for Ordovician Wufeng …

Prediction of geochemical composition from XRF core scanner data: a new multivariate approach including automatic selection of calibration samples and …

GJ Weltje, MR Bloemsma, R Tjallingii, D Heslop… - Micro-XRF Studies of …, 2015 - Springer
A multivariate log-ratio calibration (MLC) model for XRF-core-scanning devices is presented,
based on a combination of basic XRF-spectrometry theory and principles of compositional …

A marine biogeochemical perspective on black shale deposition

DZ Piper, SE Calvert - Earth-Science Reviews, 2009 - Elsevier
Deposition of marine black shales has commonly been interpreted as having involved a
high level of marine phytoplankton production that promoted high settling rates of organic …