Late Devonian carbon isotope stratigraphy and sea level fluctuations, Canning Basin, Western Australia

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 191, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 203-219

  Stephens, Nat P ^a   Sumner, Dawn Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Canning Basin; Isotopes; Late Devonian; Stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CARBON ISOTOPE; DEVONIAN; REEF; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TRANSGRESSION;

AUSTRALIA; CANNING BASIN; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

ENTOVALVA;

EID: 0037443146     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(02)00714-9     Document Type: Article

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