Biomarkers reveal the terrigenous organic matter enrichment in the late Oligocene—early Miocene marine shales in the Ying-Qiong Basin, South China Sea - Ding, Wenjing; Li, Youchuan; Lei, Lan; Li, Li; Yang, Shuchun; Yang, Yongcai; Hou, Dujie (Acta oceanologica Sinica, 2023)
Keywords: Alkanes; Angiosperms; Biomarkers; Carbon content; Climatology; Earth and Environmental Science; Earth Sciences; East Asian monsoon; Ecology; Engineering Fluid Dynamics; Enrichment; Environmental Chemistry; Flora; Humid climates; Marine & Freshwater Sciences; Miocene; Molecular weight; Monsoon intensity; Ocean floor; Oceanography; Oligocene; Organic carbon; Organic matter; Sea floor spreading; Sea level changes; Seafloor spreading; Shales; Summer monsoon; Total organic carbon; South China Sea; tropical/subtropical plants; higher plant-derived biomarkers; East Asian monsoonal climate; total organic carbon