The Late Jurassic Tithonian, a greenhouse phase in the Middle Jurassic-Early Cretaceous 'cool' mode: Evidence from the cyclic Adriatic Platform, Croatia

Sedimentology

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 317-337

  Husinec, Antun ^a   Fred Read, J ^b  

^a CROATIAN GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (Croatia)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adriatic Platform; Croatia; Green house; Late Jurassic; Precession

Indexed keywords

FACIES; GRAINSTONE; JURASSIC-CRETACEOUS BOUNDARY; MUDSTONE; OOLITE; PARASEQUENCE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TITHONIAN;

ADRIATIC COAST [CROATIA]; CROATIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33947196321     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2006.00837.x     Document Type: Article

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