A stepped karst unconformity as an early Silurian rocky shoreline in Guizhou Province (South China)

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 121, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 115-129

  Jia Yu, Rong ^a   Johnson, Markes E ^b  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

^b WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KARST; PALAEOGEOGRAPHY; ROCKY SHORELINE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SILURIAN; UNCONFORMITY;

CHINA, GUIZHOU, WUDANG;

EID: 0029729665     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-0182(95)00082-8     Document Type: Article

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