The world's most spectacular carbonate mud mounds (Middle Devonian, Algerian Sahara)

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 424-436

  Wendt, Jobst ^a   Belka, Zdzislaw ^a   Kaufmann, Bernd ^a   Kostrewa, Renate ^a   Hayer, Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; CALCITE; DEBRIS; EROSION; ISOTOPES; LITHOLOGY; SEA LEVEL;

FLUID MIGRATION; HIGH-MG CALCITES; INTERNAL EROSION; ISOTOPIC SIGNATURES; ORGANIC COMPONENTS; PELAGIC CARBONATES; SEDIMENTATION RATES; TECTONIC LINEAMENTS;

CARBONATION;

DEVONIAN; DIAGENESIS; FACIES DISTRIBUTION; GIVETIAN; MUD MOUND; PALAEOENVIRONMENT;

ALGERIA, AHNET BASIN;

EID: 0030799237     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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