Microfacies and depositional environment of an Upper Triassic intra-platform carbonate basin: The Fatric Unit of the West Carpathians (Slovakia)

Facies

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 77-105

  Tomašových, Adam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Benthic assemblages; Carbonate sedimentology; Coral patch reefs; Facies analysis; Rhaetian; Upper Triassic; West Carpathians

Indexed keywords

BIOCLASTIC ROCK; CARBONATE SEDIMENT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FACIES ANALYSIS; MICROFACIES; TRIASSIC;

CARPATHIANS; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SLOVAKIA; WESTERN CARPATHIANS;

ALGAE; ANTHOZOA; BIVALVIA; BRACHIOPODA; ECHINODERMATA; FORAMINIFERA; GASTROPODA; MOLLUSCA; RHODOPHYTA; SCLERACTINIA; ZU;

EID: 2442436598     PISSN: 01729179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10347-004-0004-y     Document Type: Article

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