Deep-sea trace fossils controlled by palaeo-oxygenation and deposition: An example from the Lower Cretaceous dark flysch deposits of the Silesian Unit, Carpathians, Poland

Fossils and Strata

Volumn , Issue 51, 2004, Pages 39-57

  Uchman, Alfred ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Anoxic events; Bioturbation; Ichnology; Tiering; Turbidites

Indexed keywords

BIOTURBATION; CRETACEOUS; FLYSCH; ICHNOFACIES; ICHNOLOGY; TRACE FOSSIL;

CARPATHIANS; EURASIA; EUROPE;

BIVALVIA; NEREITES;

EID: 33747151389     PISSN: 03009491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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