Larger foraminiferal and coralline algal facies in an Upper Eocene storm-influenced, shallow-water carbonate platform (Colli Berici, north-eastern Italy)

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 226, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 17-35

  Bassi, Davide ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Colli Berici; Coralline red algae; Larger foraminifera; Late Eocene; North eastern Italy; Palaeoecology; Shallow water carbonates

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE PLATFORM; CORALLINE ALGA; EOCENE; FORAMINIFERA; PALEOECOLOGY;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

ALGAE; FORAMINIFERA; NUMMULITES; RHODOPHYTA;

EID: 24344506496     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2005.05.002     Document Type: Article

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