Sedimentary history of a Mississippian to Pennsylvanian coal-bearing succession: An example from the Upper Silesia Coal Basin, Poland

Geological Magazine

Volumn 144, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 487-496

  Kedzior, Artur ^a   Gradziński, Ryszard ^a   Doktor, Marek ^a   Gmur, Dariusz ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Carboniferous; Coal petrography; Sedimentology; Upper Silesia

Indexed keywords

COAL; DEPOSITION; PETROGRAPHY; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

CARBONIFEROUS; COASTAL SYSTEMS; FLUVIAL SYSTEMS; MARINE FAUNA; MISSISSIPPIANS; PENNSYLVANIAN COALS; PENNSYLVANIANS; UPPER SILESIA;

COAL DEPOSITS;

ACCUMULATION RATE; COAL PRODUCTION; COAL SEAM; EUSTACY; FOREARC BASIN; MISSISSIPPIAN; PENNSYLVANIAN; PETROGRAPHY; SEDIMENTARY PETROLOGY;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; POLAND; SLASKIE; UPPER SILESIAN COAL BASIN;

EID: 34249109954     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: 14695081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S001675680700341X     Document Type: Article

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