Preliminary study of the calcareous taphocoenoses in Late Quaternary glacial marine sequences of the Ross Sea (Antarctica)

Geobios

Volumn 35, Issue SUPPLEMENT, 2002, Pages 207-218

  Melis, R ^a   Colizza, E ^a   Pizzolato, F ^a   Rosso, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b Sezione di Oceanologia e Paleoecologia   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bryozoans; Foraminifers; Glacial evolution; Late Quaternary; Polar carbonate; Ross Sea; Taphonomy

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE; FORAMINIFERA; GLACIAL SEDIMENTATION; ICE SHELF; INVERTEBRATE; OSCILLATION; QUATERNARY; TAPHONOMY;

ROSS SEA;

BRYOZOA; FORAMINIFERA; NEOGLOBOQUADRINA; NEOGLOBOQUADRINA PACHYDERMA; STYLASTERIDAE;

EID: 0036979241     PISSN: 00166995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-6995(02)00060-8     Document Type: Article

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