Upper Devonian carbonate platform correlations and sea level variations recorded in magnetic susceptibility

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 240, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 373-388

  da Silva, Anne Christine ^a   Boulvain, Frédéric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Carbonate platform; Frasnian; Magnetic susceptibility; Sedimentology; Sequences

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE PLATFORM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHINODERM; FRASNIAN; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MICROFACIES; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION;

BELGIUM; BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; WESTERN EUROPE;

ALGAE; PELMATOZOA;

EID: 33749130169     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2006.02.012     Document Type: Article

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