Ichnology of rhythmically bedded Demopolis Chalk (upper cretaceous, Alabama): Implications for paleoenvironment, depositional cycle origins, and tracemaker behavior

Palaios

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 423-438

  Locklair, Robert E ^a   Savrda, Charles E ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHALK; CRETACEOUS; CYCLICITY; ICHNOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT;

UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; PLANOLITES; TAENIDIUM; TEICHICHNUS; THALASSINOIDES; ZOOPHYCOS;

EID: 0032459461     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3515472     Document Type: Article

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