Impact of long-term climate change and sea-level fluctuation on Mississippian to Permian mid-oceanic atoll sedimentation (Akiyoshi Limestone Group, Japan)

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 236, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 169-189

  Sano, Hiroyoshi ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Akiyoshi Limestone Group; Atoll carbonates; Emergence; Late Paleozoic global cooling; Panthalassa Ocean

Indexed keywords

CALCAREOUS ALGA; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIATION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENTATION; SKELETON;

ALGAE; ANTHOZOA; BRYOZOA; METAZOA;

EID: 33744531519     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2005.11.009     Document Type: Article

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