Pangea: Extravagant sedimentary resource formation during supercontinent configuration, an overview

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 161, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 35-48

  Trappe, Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bauxite; Carboniferous; Coals; Economic resources; Evaporites; Global change; Hydrocarbon source rocks; Ironstones; Pangea; Permian; Triassic

Indexed keywords

MINERAL RESOURCE; PANGAEA; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; SUPERCONTINENT; TECTONIC SETTING;

CARBONIFEROUS;

EID: 0034253999     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(00)00116-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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