Environmental and substrate control on paleozoic bioerosion in corals and stromatoporoids, Anticosti Island, Eastern Canada

Palaios

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 292-306

  Tapanila, Leif ^a   Copper, Paul ^a   Edinger, Evan ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOEROSION; BORING; CORAL REEF; ORDOVICIAN; SILURIAN;

ANTICOSTI ISLAND; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; QUEBEC;

ANTHOZOA; BIVALVIA; PERA; STROMATOPOROIDA; STROMATOPOROIDEA;

EID: 3042771391     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1669/0883-1351(2004)019<0292:EASCOP>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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