A unique Permian-Triassic boundary section from the Neotethyan Hawasina Basin, Central Oman Mountains

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 191, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 329-344

  Krystyn, Leo ^a   Richoz, Sylvain ^b   Baud, Aymon ^b   Twitchett, Richard J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Bivalves; Carbon isotopes; Conodonts; Neotethys; Oman; Permian; Triassic

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BRECCIA; CONODONT; LITHOLOGY; MOLLUSC; PALEOECOLOGY; PERMIAN-TRIASSIC BOUNDARY; TRANSGRESSION;

HAWASINA BASIN; OMAN; OMAN MOUNTAINS;

AMMONOIDEA; ANTHOZOA; BIVALVIA; BRACHIOPODA; CALCAREA; CLARAIA; CONODONTA; ECHINOIDEA; EUMORPHOTIS; MOLLUSCA; NEOSPATHODUS KUMMELI; OPHICERAS; OPHICERAS TIBETICUM; OSTRACODA; PELMATOZOA; PROMYALINA; SMITHIA; STROMATOPOROIDEA;

EID: 0037456360     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(02)00670-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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