Pyritized radiolarians from the mid-Cretaceous deposits of the Pieniny Klippen Belt - a model of pyritization in an anoxic environment

Geologica Carpathica

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 91-99

  Ba̧k, Marta ^a   Sawłowicz, Zbigniew ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Anoxic event; Carpathians; Pieniny Klippen Belt; Pyritization; Radiolaria

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; CRETACEOUS; PYRITE; RADIOLARIA;

POLAND;

EID: 0034177127     PISSN: 13350552     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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