Danian cool-water bryozoan mounds at Stevns Klint, Denmark - A new class of non-cemented skeletal mounds

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 77, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 634-660

  Bjerager, Morten ^a   Surlyk, Finn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATION; EROSION; SURFACE WATERS;

BOTTOM CURRENT; BOTTOM WATER; COASTAL CLIFF; FACIES ANALYSIS; MESOSCALE MAPPING; SLOPE CURRENTS; STEVNS KLINT , DENMARK; WATER COLUMNS;

NUTRIENTS;

BRYOZOAN; CORIOLIS FORCE; DANIAN; FACIES ANALYSIS; FORMATION MECHANISM; MUD MOUND; OUTCROP; PHOTIC ZONE; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; STRATIFICATION; SUCCESSION; WATER COLUMN;

DENMARK; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; STEVNS KLINT; STORSTROM;

BRYOZOA; ECHINOIDA; THALASSINOIDES;

EID: 34447511523     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2007.064     Document Type: Article

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