Foraminiferal biofacies and palaeoenvironmental evolution of an Oligo-Miocene cool-water carbonate succession in the Otway Basin, southeast Australia

Journal of Micropalaeontology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 143-168

  Gallagher, Stephen J ^a   Jonasson, Karina ^a   Holdgate, Guy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE ROCK; FACIES ANALYSIS; FORAMINIFERA; MIOCENE; OLIGOCENE; PALEOENVIRONMENT;

AUSTRALIA;

ASTRONONION; BOLIVINIDAE; BRYOZOA; ECHINOIDEA; FORAMINIFERA; HIATUS; LAGENIDAE; UVIGERINA;

EID: 0033499838     PISSN: 0262821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/jm.18.2.143     Document Type: Article

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