The Bashkirian 'Fenestella Shales' and the Moscovian 'Chaetetid Shales' of the Tethys Himalaya (South Tibet, Nepal and India)

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

Volumn 16, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 119-141

  Garzanti, Eduardo ^a   Angiolini, Lucia ^a   Brunton, Howard ^b   Sciunnach, Dario ^a   Balini, Marco ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONIFEROUS; MARKER BED; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; STRATIGRAPHY; TETHYS;

ASIA;

EID: 0032430315     PISSN: 13679120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0743-9547(98)00006-3     Document Type: Article

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