Recent advances in South African Neoproterozoic-early Palaeozoic biostratigraphy: Correlation of the Cango Caves and Gamtoos Groups and acritarchs of the Sardinia Bay Formation, Saldania Belt

South African Journal of Geology

Volumn 109, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 193-214

  Gaucher, Claudio ^a   Germs, Gerard J B ^b  

^a FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS   (Uruguay)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACRITARCH; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MICROFOSSIL; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; PROTEROZOIC;

AFRICA; EASTERN CAPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GAMTOOS BASIN; ITALY; SARDINIA; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

ACRITARCHA; LEIOSPHAERIDIA;

EID: 33747605609     PISSN: 10120750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gssajg.109.1-2.193     Document Type: Article

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