Progressive drowning of carbonate platform in the Moravo-Silesian Basin (Czech Republic) before the Frasnian/Famennian event: Facies, compositional variations and gamma-ray spectrometry

Facies

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 293-316

  Bábek, Ondřej ^a,b   Přkryl, Tomáš ^b   Hladil, Jindřich ^c  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Carbonate platform drowning; Devonian; Differential subsidence; Frasnian Famennianextinction; Gamma ray spectrometry

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CARBONATE PLATFORM; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONODONT; FRASNIAN-FAMENNIAN BOUNDARY; GAMMA RAY SPECTROMETRY; MICROFACIES; PASSIVE MARGIN; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SUBSIDENCE;

CARPATHIANS; CENTRAL EUROPE; CZECH REPUBLIC; EURASIA; EUROPE; POLAND; SILESIAN BASIN;

PALMATOLEPIS;

EID: 34147108309     PISSN: 01729179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10347-006-0095-8     Document Type: Article

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