Palaeoenvironmental setting of rudists in the Upper Cretaceous (Turonian-Maastrichtian) Adriatic carbonate platform (Croatia), based on sequence stratigraphy

Cretaceous Research

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 489-508

  Moro, Alan ^a   Skelton, Peter W ^b   Ćosović, Vlasta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adriatic region; Rudists; Sequence stratigraphy; Upper Cretaceous

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CARBONATE PLATFORM; CRETACEOUS; MOLLUSC; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

CROATIA;

BIVALVIA;

EID: 0041302518     PISSN: 01956671     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cres.2002.1017     Document Type: Article

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