A new synthesis of permo-carboniferous phylloid algal reef ecology

AAPG Memoir

Volumn , Issue 83, 2005, Pages 171-188

  Forsythe, Graham T W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAL COMMUNITY; BIOHERM; BIOSTROME; REEF FORMATION;

NORTH AMERICA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

ALGAE; ARCHAEOLITHOPHYLLUM; ARCHAEOLITHOPORELLA; EUGONOPHYLLUM; RHODOPHYTA; SHAMOVELLA; VIRGILIA;

EID: 34548593167     PISSN: 02718529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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