Conodont-based quantitative biostratigraphy for the Eifelian of the eastern Anti-Atlas, Morocco

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 109, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 643-651

  Belka, Zdzislaw ^a   Kaufmann, Bernd ^a   Bultynck, Pierre ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGY;

ANTI-ATLAS; CONODONT ZONE; LINEAR FITS; PALEOBATHYMETRY; QUANTITATIVE BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; SEDIMENT ACCUMULATION;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; COMPOSITE; CONODONT; EIFELIAN; EMSIAN; GIVETIAN; SEDIMENTATION; DEVONIAN;

ANTI ATLAS; ATLAS MOUNTAINS; DRAA-TAFILALET; MOROCCO; TAFILALT; ANTI-ATLAS;

EID: 0030731089     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1997)109<0643:CBQBFT>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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