The development of an atypical hirnantia-brachiopod fauna and the onset of glaciation in the late ordovician of Gondwana

Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Earth Sciences

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-14

  Sutcliffe, Owen E ^a,e   Harper, David A T ^b   Salem, Abdallah Aït ^c   Whittington, Robert J ^a   Craig, Jonathan ^d  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c ENI LASMO ^*  (Morocco)

^d ENI Limited   (United Kingdom)

^e Badley Ashton and Associates Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ashgill; Biostratigraphy; Hirnantian; Ice sheet growth; Libya; Lower and upper second Bani formations; Melez chograne formation; Morocco; Sea level fall

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; GLACIOEUSTACY; GONDWANA; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; ORDOVICIAN; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

ANTI-ATLAS; ATLAS MOUNTAINS; MOROCCO;

BRACHIOPODA; HIRNANTIA;

EID: 0035162485     PISSN: 02635933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0263593300000018     Document Type: Article

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