Depositional environment and biofacies characterisation of the Triassic (Carnian to Rhaetian) carbonate succession of Punta Bassano (Marettimo Island, Sicily)

Facies

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 389-400

  Martini, Rossana ^a   Cirilli, Simonetta ^b   Saurer, Céline ^a   Abate, Benedetto ^c   Ferruzza, Gaetano ^c   Lo Cicero, Giovanna ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Foraminifers; Marettimo Island; Ostracods; Palaeogeography; Palynomorphs; Sedimentology; Sicily; Upper Triassic

Indexed keywords

BIOFACIES; CARBONATE RAMP; CARBONATE SEDIMENT; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; LIMESTONE; MARL; MUDSTONE; OSTRACOD; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PALYNOMORPH; PSEUDOMORPH; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TRIASSIC;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; MARETTIMO; PUNTA BASSANO; SICILY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TRAPANI;

FORAMINIFERA; OSTRACODA;

EID: 34447267458     PISSN: 01729179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10347-007-0115-3     Document Type: Article

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