Structural and taphonomic analysis of a columnar coralline algal build-up from SE Sicily

Geobios

Volumn 35, Issue SUPPLEMENT, 2002, Pages 86-95

  Di Geronimo, Italo ^a   Di Geronimo, Raffaella ^a   Rosso, Antonietta ^a   Sanfilippo, Rossana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bioconstruction; Coralline algae; Functional guilds; Holocene; Mediterranean Sea; Microfacies

Indexed keywords

CALCAREOUS ALGA; CORALLINE ALGA; HOLOCENE; MICROFACIES; REEF FORMATION; TAPHONOMY;

ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SICILY;

ALGAE; BIVALVIA; BRACHIOPODA; BRYOZOA; FORAMINIFERA; INVERTEBRATA; SERPULIDAE; VERMETIDAE;

EID: 0036973516     PISSN: 00166995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-6995(02)00050-5     Document Type: Article

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