Origin, sequence stratigraphy and depositional environment of an upper Ordovician (Hirnantian) deglacial black shale, Jordan

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 220, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 273-289

  Armstrong, Howard A ^a   Turner, Brian R ^a   Makhlouf, Issa M ^b   Weedon, Graham P ^c   Williams, Mark ^d   Smadi, Ahmad Al ^e   Salah, Abdulfattah Abu ^e  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b HASHEMITE UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

^c SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^e Natural Resources Authority   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Black shale; Depositional models; Hirnantian; Jordan; Sequence stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

BLACK SHALE; DEGLACIATION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; ORDOVICIAN; SEDIMENTATION; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; JORDAN; MIDDLE EAST; WORLD;

HIRNANTIA;

EID: 18044383573     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2005.01.007     Document Type: Article

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