Relationships between lithofacies belts and conodont faunas, Gun River Formation (Lower Silurian), Anticosti Island, Quebec: A statistical approach

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1767-1782

  Zhang, Shunxin ^a   Barnes, Christopher R ^a   Pohler, Susanne M L ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b ZAMG Zentralanstalt fuer Meteorologie und Geodynamik   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC   (Fiji)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS;

EARTH SCIENCES;

LITHOFACIES; MICROFOSSIL; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SILURIAN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CANADA;

EID: 0037002414     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/e02-087     Document Type: Review

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