Ichnology of deep-sea fan overbank deposits of the Ganei Slates (Eocene, Switzerland) - A classical flysch trace fossil locality studied first by Oswald Heer

Ichnos

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 139-162

  Wetzel, Andreas ^a   Uchman, Alfred ^b  

^a Geologisch Palaontologisches Institut Universitat Basel   (Switzerland)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Alps; Eocene; Flysch; Ichnotaxonomy; Paleoecology

Indexed keywords

GORGONACEA; NEREITES; PALAEOPHYCUS; PLANOLITES;

EOCENE; FLYSCH; OVERBANK SEDIMENT; SUBMARINE FAN; TRACE FOSSIL;

SWITZERLAND, CANI;

EID: 0030865060     PISSN: 10420940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10420949709386413     Document Type: Article

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