New approach for quantifying water depth applied to the enigma of drowning of carbonate platforms

Geology

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 783-786

  Mallarino, Gianni ^a   Goldstein, Robert H ^b   Di Stefano, Pietro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbonate platforms; Drowning; Fluid inclusions; Jurassic; Paleobathymetry; Tethys

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE PLATFORMS;

CALCITE; CEMENTS; EUTROPHICATION; LIMESTONE; RECRYSTALLIZATION (METALLURGY); SEAWATER; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY;

WATER LEVELS;

CARBONATE PLATFORM; DIAGENESIS; FLUID INCLUSION; JURASSIC; PERTURBATION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; WATER DEPTH;

ITALY;

EID: 0346035995     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(2002)030<0783:NAFQWD>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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