Key Largo Limestone revisited: Pleistocene shelf-edge facies, Florida Keys, USA

Facies

Volumn , Issue 46, 2002, Pages 229-272

  Gray Multer, H ^a   Gischler, Eberhard ^b   Lundberg, Joyce ^c   Simmons, Kathleen R ^d   Shinn, Eugene A ^e  

^a Goethe Universität ^*  (United States)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^e U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbonates corals reef; Diagenesis; Florida pleistocene; Key Largo Limestone; U series dating

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE; CONTINENTAL SHELF; CORAL REEF; DIAGENESIS; LIMESTONE; LITHOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE;

UNITED STATES;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 0036067571     PISSN: 01729179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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