Interpreting Early Triassic (Smithian) sea-level change and climate using sequence stratigraphy and oxygen isotopes of conodont apatite

• Main Author: Yurchyk, Stephanie
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: UNM Digital Repository 2011
• Subjects: paleoclimate; carbonate sedimentology and stratigraphy; Triassic climate; paleoceanography; oxygen isotopes; conodonts; Arctic; Canada; British Columbia; sverdrup basin
• Online Access: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/eps_etds/101; https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1100&context=eps_etds

The Early Triassic is conventionally interpreted to have a warm and ice-free climate. During this time, three globally recognized depositional sequences developed in response to ~My-scale sea-level changes. The Lower Triassic Lower Thaynes Formation records the Smithian (2nd sea-level cycle in the E...