Late Devonian-Early Carboniferous deep-water coral assemblages and sedimentation on a Devonian seamount: Iberg Reef, Harz Mts., Germany

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 123, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 297-322

  Gischler, Eberhard ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHOZOA; BIVALVIA; BRACHIOPODA; CARBONIFEROUS; CRINOIDEA; ENTOVALVA; GASTROPODA; HIATUS; METAZOA; NEPTUNIA; PELMATOZOA; TRILOBITOMORPHA;

CARBONIFEROUS; CORAL; DEEP SEA ENVIRONMENT; DEVONIAN; REEF; SEAMOUNT; SEDIMENTATION;

GERMANY, HARZ MOUNTAINS, IBERG REEF;

EID: 0030176867     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-0182(95)00125-5     Document Type: Article

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