Combined tectonic-sediment supply-driven cycles in a Lower Carboniferous deep-marine foreland basin, Moravice Formation, Czech Republic

International Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 241-261

  Bábek, Ondřej ^a   Mikuláš, Radek ^b   Zapletal, Jan ^a   Lehotský, Tomáš ^a  

^a PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Facies analysis; Foreland basin; Rhenohercynian Zone; Sediment provenance; Trace fossils

Indexed keywords

BASIN FILL; CARBONIFEROUS; COLLISION ZONE; CYCLIC SEDIMENTATION; FACIES ANALYSIS; FORELAND BASIN; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

CENTRAL EUROPE; CZECH REPUBLIC; EURASIA; EUROPE; MORAVIA;

EID: 18144440153     PISSN: 14373254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00531-004-0388-5     Document Type: Article

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