Abiogenic silica layers within a fluvio-lacustrine succession, Bolzano Volcanic Complex, northern Italy: a Permian analogue for Magadi-type cherts?

Sedimentology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 489-505

  Krainer, Karl ^a   Spötl, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHERT; FLUVIO-LACUSTRINE SUCCESSION; PERMIAN; SILICA;

ITALY;

EID: 0031722456     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3091.1998.00164.x     Document Type: Article

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