Two Palaeozoic hydrothermal vent communities from the southern Ural Mountains, Russia

Palaeontology

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1043-1078

  Little, Crispin T S ^a,b   Maslennikov, Valeriy V ^c   Morris, Noel J ^a   Gubanov, Alexander P ^d,e  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF MINERALOGY   (Russian Federation)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e TROFIMUK INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVONIAN; HYDROTHERMAL VENT COMMUNITY; MASSIVE SULFIDE; PALEOECOLOGY; SILURIAN;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SIBAY; URALS; YAMAN KASY;

AMBONYCHIIDAE; ANNELIDA; BIVALVIA; BRACHIOPODA; ENTOVALVA; POLYCHAETA; VETIGASTROPODA;

EID: 0033506611     PISSN: 00310239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1475-4983.00110     Document Type: Article

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