'Pseudobreccias' revealed as calcrete mottling and bioturbation in the Late Dinantian of the southern Lake District, UK

Sedimentology

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 19-38

  Horbury, Andrew D ^a,b   Qing, Hairuo ^c  

^a CAMBRIDGE CARBONATES LTD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

'Pseudobreccias'; Bioturbation; Calcrete mottling; Southern Lake district; Urswick limestone formation

Indexed keywords

BIOTURBATION; CALCRETE; CARBONIFEROUS; DINANTIAN; LIMESTONE; PALEOKARST;

CUMBRIA; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; LAKE DISTRICT; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

THALASSINOIDES;

EID: 1542639763     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3091.2003.00607.x     Document Type: Article

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