Upper Carboniferous to Lower Triassic carbon isotopic signature in carbonate rocks of the Western Tethys (Slovenia)

Geologica Carpathica

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 217-228

  Dolenec, Matej ^a   Ogorelec, Bojan ^b   Lojen, Sonja ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF SLOVENIA   (Slovenia)

^c JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

13C stratigraphy; Carbon stable isotopes; Carbonates; Permian Triassic boundary; Slovenia; Upper Carboniferous Lower Triassic; Western Tethys

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBONATE; CARBONIFEROUS; PERMIAN-TRIASSIC BOUNDARY; STRATIGRAPHY; TETHYS;

SLOVENIA;

EID: 0141862067     PISSN: 13350552     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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