The occurrence and role of microencruster frameworks in Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous platform margin deposits of the Northern Calcareous Alps (Austria)

Facies

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 207-231

  Schlagintweit, Felix ^a   Gawlick, Hans Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEOBEN   (Austria)

Author keywords

Alpine Neotethyan domain; Cement crusts; Late Jurassic; Microbialites; Microencruster

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE; COASTAL SEDIMENT; CRETACEOUS; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; JURASSIC; MICROBIALITE; MICROFACIES; REEF; SHALLOW WATER; TETHYS;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 42449144808     PISSN: 01729179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10347-007-0131-3     Document Type: Article

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