Benthic foraminifera from the meromictic Mecherchar Jellyfish Lake, Palau (western Pacific)

Micropaleontology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 278-284

  Lipps, Jere H ^a   Langer, Martin R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; MEROMICTIC LAKE;

JELLYFISH LAKE; MECHERCHAR ISLAND; PALAU;

EID: 0033378878     PISSN: 00262803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1486137     Document Type: Article

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