Carbonate deposition during a time of mid-latitude ocean cooling: Early Permian subtropical sedimentation in the Sverdrup Basin, Arctic Canada

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 78, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 2-15

  Bensing, Joel P ^a   James, Noel P ^a   Beauchamp, Benoît ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATES; CARBONATION; IRON DEPOSITS; IRON OXIDES; MICA; ROCKS; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTATION; STORMS;

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERS; CARBONATE DEPOSITION; CARBONATE ROCK; DEPOSITIONAL CONDITION; EVOLUTIONARY CHANGES; SEAWATER TEMPERATURE; SHALLOW MARINE; TRANSITION PERIOD;

TROPICS;

CARBONATE SEDIMENT; COOLING; DEPOSITION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; PERMIAN; SEDIMENTATION; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; WATER DEPTH;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; NUNAVUT; SVERDRUP BASIN;

ANTHOZOA; BRACHIOPODA; BRYOZOA; FORAMINIFERA; FUSULINIDA; PELMATOZOA;

EID: 39549088078     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2008.004     Document Type: Article

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