Death in Guizhou - late Triassic drowning of the Yangtze carbonate platform

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 118, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 55-76

  Enos, Paul ^a   Wei Jiayong, ^b   Lehrmann, Daniel J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b Guizhou Reg Geological Mapping Team   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE PLATFORM; PALAEOGEOGRAPHY; TRIASSIC;

CHINA, YANGTZE PLATFORM;

EID: 0031765488     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0037-0738(98)00005-0     Document Type: Article

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