Early Badenian paleoenvironment in the Lavanttal Basin (Mühdorf Formation; Austria): Evidence from geochemistry and paleontology

Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 100, Issue , 2007, Pages 202-229

  Reischenbacher, Doris ^a   Refelj, Helena ^b   Sachsenhofer, Reinhard F ^a   Jelen, Bogomir ^b   Ćorić, Stjepan ^c   Gross, Martin ^d   Reichenbacher, Bettina ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEOBEN   (Austria)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF SLOVENIA   (Slovenia)

^c ZAMG Zentralanstalt fuer Meteorologie und Geodynamik   (Austria)

^d Landesmuseum Joanneum   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Badenian; Calcaerous nanoplankton; Foraminfers; Organic matter; Organic petrography; Ostracoda

Indexed keywords

ALGAL BLOOM; BADENIAN; DEPOSITION; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; FORAMINIFERA; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LITHOLOGY; NANOPLANKTON; ORGANIC MATTER; OXYGENATION; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEONTOLOGY; PETROGRAPHY; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SEDIMENT-WATER INTERFACE; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SYSTEMS TRACT; TRANSGRESSION;

ALPS; AUSTRIA; CARINTHIA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FOHNSDORF; LAVANTTAL; STYRIA;

ALGAE; EMBRYOPHYTA; FORAMINIFERA; OSTRACODA; PARATETHYS;

EID: 41149174645     PISSN: 20727151     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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