Environmental controls on perennial and ephemeral carbonate lakes: The central palaeo-Andean Basin of Bolivia during late Cretaceous to early Tertiary times

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 113, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 1-26

  Camoin, Gilbert ^a   Casanova, Joël ^b   Rouchy, Jean Marie ^c   Blanc Valleron, Marie Madeleine ^c   Deconinck, Jean François ^d  

^a CEREGE   (France)

^b BRGM   (France)

^c MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^d UNIV LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

Carbonate rocks; Climate effects; Cretaceous; Lacustrine sedimentation; Stromatolites; Tectonic controls; Tertiary; Thrombolites

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002313478     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0037-0738(97)00052-3     Document Type: Article

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