The palaeogeographic and palaeoenvironmental evolution of a Palaeogene mixed carbonate-siliciclastic cool-water succession in the Otway Basin, Southeast Australia

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 156, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 19-50

  Gallagher, S J ^a   Holdgate, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Foraminifera; Otway Basin; Palaeoenvironments; Palaeogene; Palaeogeography

Indexed keywords

FACIES ANALYSIS; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOGENE; STRATIGRAPHY;

AUSTRALIA;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 0033981263     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(99)00130-3     Document Type: Article

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