Burrow-mediated carbonate dissolution in rudist biostromes (Aurisina, Italy): Implications for taphonomy in tropical, shallow subtidal carbonate environments

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 168, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 39-74

  Sanders, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Bioturbation; Cretaceous; Diagenesis; Rudists; Taphonomy

Indexed keywords

BIOSTROME; BURROW; CARBONATE; DISSOLUTION; SUBTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; TAPHONOMY; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

ITALY;

EID: 0035306997     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(00)00249-2     Document Type: Article

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