Conodont biostratigraphy and faunal assemblages in radiolarian ribbon-banded cherts of the Burubaital Formation, West Balkhash Region, Kazakhstan

Geological Magazine

Volumn 141, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 699-715

  Tolmacheva, Tatiana ^a,b   Holmer, Lars ^a   Popov, Leonid ^c   Gogin, Ivan ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b A P KARPINSKY RUSSIAN GEOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conodonta; Kazakhstan; Ordovician; Radiolarites

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION PATTERNS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; CONODONTA; KAZAKHSTAN; OCEANIC ENVIRONMENTS; ORDOVICIAN; PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; RADIOLARITES;

SURFACE WATERS;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONODONT; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOECOLOGY; RADIOLARIA;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; KAZAKHSTAN; WEST ASIA; WORLD;

EID: 12444282713     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756804009902     Document Type: Article

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