Novel reef fabrics from the Devonian Canning Basin, Western Australia

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 121, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 149-156

  Wood, Rachel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Canning Basin; Cavities; Devonian; Palaeoecology; Reef; Slope margin

Indexed keywords

CAVITY; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; DEVONIAN; PALEOECOLOGY; REEF; TEXTURE;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0032215821     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0037-0738(98)00091-8     Document Type: Article

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