Controls on coal development, roof shales and driftwood horizons in Upper Carboniferous basins of NW-Europe by subsidence, sedimentation rate and sea-level oscillations

Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie - Abhandlungen

Volumn 202, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 227-241

  Hofmann, Christa Charlotte ^a  

^a Geozentrum   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONIFEROUS; COAL PRODUCTION; COAL SEAM; FORMATION MECHANISM; ROOF; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SHALE; STRUCTURAL CONTROL; TAPHONOMY;

CULM BASIN; DEVON; ENGLAND; GERMANY; NORTH RHINE-WESTPHALIA; RUHR; UNITED KINGDOM;

CARBONIFEROUS;

EID: 1542708058     PISSN: 00777749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/njgpa/202/1996/227     Document Type: Article

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