Early Triassic palaeoenvironments in the eastern Karoo Foreland Basin, South Africa

Journal of African Earth Sciences

Volumn 24, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 79-94

  Haycock, C A ^a   Mason, T R ^b   Watkeys, M K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b Armagh Planetarium   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORELAND BASIN; KAROO SUPERGROUP; PALAEOENVIRONMENT; PALAEOGEOGRAPHY; TRIASSIC;

SOUTH AFRICA, KAROO BASIN;

EID: 0030810329     PISSN: 08995362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0899-5362(97)00028-6     Document Type: Article

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