Platform margins, reef facies, and microbial carbonates; a comparison of Devonian reef complexes in the Canning Basin, Western Australia, and the Guilin region, South China

Earth-Science Reviews

Volumn 88, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 33-59

  Shen, Jian Wei ^a   Webb, Gregory E ^b   Jell, John S ^c  

^a SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Canning Basin; Devonian; Guilin; reef complexes; South China; Western Australia

Indexed keywords

AGGRADATION; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CARBONATE; CYCLICITY; DEPOSITION; DEVONIAN; FACIES ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PROGRADATION; REEF FORMATION; TECTONIC SETTING; TROUGH;

ASIA; AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; CANNING BASIN; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GUANGXI ZHUANGZU; GUILIN; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 42349108842     PISSN: 00128252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2008.01.002     Document Type: Article

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