Review of Irish lower Carboniferous (Mississippian) mud mounds: Depositional setting, Biota, Facies, and evolution

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Volumn , Issue 83, 2005, Pages 239-252

  Somerville, Ian D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

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Indexed keywords

BRYOZOAN; CALCAREOUS ALGA; CARBONIFEROUS; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; DEWATERING; EUPHOTIC ZONE; GRAINSTONE; LIMESTONE; MUD MOUND; PARALLEL EVOLUTION;

COUNTY DUBLIN; DUBLIN [COUNTY DUBLIN]; EURASIA; EUROPE; IRELAND; LEINSTER; SHANNON; WESTERN EUROPE;

ALGAE; ANTHOZOA; ARCHAEOLITHOPHYLLUM; BRYOZOA; CHLOROPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA; DASYCLADACEAE; FASCIELLA; FENESTELLIDAE; FORAMINIFERA; KAMAENA; KONINCKOPORA; ORTONELLA; PELMATOZOA; RENALCIS; RHODOPHYTA; TETRATAXIS; UNGDARELLA;

EID: 34548576848     PISSN: 02718529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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