'Instantaneous' sedimentation, early microbial sediment strengthening and a lengthy record of chemical diagenesis preserved in Lower Jurassic ammonitiferous concretions from Dorset

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 157, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 165-172

  Curtis, C D ^a   Cope, J C W ^b   Plant, D ^a   Macquaker, J H S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ammonites; Burial; Cements; Concretions; Diagenesis

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE SEDIMENT; CONCRETION; DIAGENESIS; JURASSIC; SEDIMENTATION;

ENGLAND(DORSET); UNITED KINGDOM;

AMMONITES;

EID: 0342632433     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/jgs.157.1.165     Document Type: Article

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