Microbial carbonate production in a starved basin: The crenistria limestone of the upper Visean German Kulm Facies

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 130, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 209-225

  Warnke, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carbonate sediments; Deep water environment; Lower Carboniferous; Sponges

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; CARBONIFEROUS; RADIOLARIA (PROTOZOANS);

CARBONIFEROUS; KULM; MICROBIAL LIMESTONE; MICROFACIES; RADIOLARIA; SPONGE; VISEAN;

GERMANY, RHENISH SCHIEFERGEBIRGE;

EID: 0030617515     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(96)00138-1     Document Type: Article

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