Implications of Gondwana glaciations in the Baltic late Ordovician and Silurian and a carbon isotopic test of environmental cyclicity

Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France

Volumn 174, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 59-66

  Kaljo, Dimitri ^a   Martma, Tonu ^a   Männik, Peep ^a   Viira, Viive ^a  

^a TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Baltica; Carbon isotopes; Glaciations; Gondwana; Ordovician; Palaeoclimates; Silurian

Indexed keywords

BALTICA; CARBON ISOTOPE; CYCLICITY; GLACIATION; GONDWANA; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOCLIMATE; SILURIAN;

BALTIC STATES;

EID: 0037217489     PISSN: 00379409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/174.1.59     Document Type: Article

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