Carbonate petrography as an indicator of climate and sea-level changes: New data from Bahamian Quaternary units

Sedimentology

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 381-399

  Kindler, Pascal ^a   Hearty, Paul J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b Chertsey #112 ^*  (Bahamas)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE PETROGRAPHY; CARBONATE SHOAL; CEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; LIMESTONE; PETROGRAPHY; QUATERNARY; QUATERNARY ENVIRONMENT; SEA LEVEL CHANGES; SEA LEVEL VARIATION; STRATIGRAPHY;

BAHAMAS;

EID: 0029773548     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3091.1996.d01-11.x     Document Type: Article

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