Quantification of high-frequency sea-level fluctuations in shallow-water carbonates: An example from the Berriasian-Valanginian (French Jura)

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 200, Issue 1-4, 2003, Pages 43-63

  Hillgärtner, Heiko ^a,b   Strasser, André ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^b SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

Author keywords

Accommodation; Carbonates; Cyclostratigraphy; Quantitative analysis; Sea level changes

Indexed keywords

BERRIASIAN; CARBONATE PLATFORM; CRETACEOUS; CYCLOSTRATIGRAPHY; FACIES ANALYSIS; MILANKOVITCH CYCLE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SHALLOW WATER; VALANGINIAN;

FRANCE; JURA MOUNTAINS;

EID: 0242403163     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(03)00444-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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