Non-marine evaporites with both inherited marine and continental signatures: The Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia, at ∼ 70 ka

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 201, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 267-285

  Playà, Elisabet ^a   Cendón, Dioni I ^b,c   Travé, Anna ^a   Chivas, Allan R ^b   García, Adriana ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Evaporites; Gulf of Carpentaria; Gypsum micrite cycles; Isotopes; Rare earth contents; Trace element contents

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIZATION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; EVAPORITE; GYPSUM; MICRITE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TRACE ELEMENT;

ARAFURA SEA; GULF OF CARPENTARIA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

CARPENTARIA;

EID: 34848916695     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2007.05.010     Document Type: Article

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