The drowning of a carbonate platform: An example from the Devonian-Carboniferous of the southwestern Holy Cross Mountains, Poland

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 106, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 21-49

  Szulczewski, M ^a   Belka, Z ^b   Skompski, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE PLATFORM; CARBONIFEROUS; DEVONIAN; DROWNING; PALAEOGEOGRAPHY;

POLAND, HOLY CROSS MOUNTAINS;

EID: 0030440040     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0037-0738(95)00145-X     Document Type: Article

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