Analysis of Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous algal debris-facies of the Plassen carbonate platform in the Northern Calcareous Alps (Germany, Austria) and in the Kurbnesh area of the Mirdita zone (Albania): A tool to reconstruct tectonics and palaeogeography of eroded platforms

Facies

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 209-227

  Schlagintweit, Felix ^a   Gawlick, Hans Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEOBEN   (Austria)

Author keywords

Albanides; Austria; Barmstein Limestone; Calcareous algae; Dasycladales; Early Cretaceous; Late Jurassic; Northern Calcareous Alps; Plassencarbonate platform

Indexed keywords

CALCAREOUS ALGA; CARBONATE PLATFORM; JURASSIC-CRETACEOUS BOUNDARY; LIMESTONE; MICROFACIES; MICROFOSSIL; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

AUSTRIA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

ALGAE; DASYCLADALES;

EID: 34147157334     PISSN: 01729179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10347-006-0100-2     Document Type: Article

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