Carbon isotope record of Late Cambrian to Early Ordovician carbonates of the Argentine Precordillera

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 195, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 357-373

  Buggisch, Werner ^a   Keller, Martin ^a   Lehnert, Oliver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Argentina; Cambrian; Carbon isotopes; Ordovician; Precordillera

Indexed keywords

CAMBRIAN; CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBONATE PLATFORM; ORDOVICIAN; SEA LEVEL; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

ARGENTINA; PRECORDILLERA;

ARGENTINA (FISH);

EID: 0038208392     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(03)00365-1     Document Type: Article

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