Fossils, sediments, tectonics: Reconstructing palaeoenvironments in a Pliocene-Pleistocene Mediterranean microbasin

Facies

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 361-380

  Steinthorsdottir, Margret ^a,c   Lidgard, Scott ^a   Håkansson, Eckart ^b  

^a FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Bryozoans; Celleporaria; Cool water carbonates; Eastern Mediterranean; Palaeoecology; Pliocene Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

BASIN; BRYOZOAN; CLIMATE EFFECT; FOSSIL; GROWTH RESPONSE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY; SEDIMENT; TECTONIC SETTING; TRANSGRESSION; TSUNAMI;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

BIVALVIA; BRACHIOPODA; BRYOZOA; CELLEPORARIA; CELLEPORIDAE;

EID: 33746902304     PISSN: 01729179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10347-006-0048-2     Document Type: Article

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