Demise of the northern Tethyan Urgonian carbonate platform and subsequent transition towards pelagic conditions: The sedimentary record of the Col de la Plaine Morte area, central Switzerland

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 205, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 142-159

  Föllmi, Karl B ^a   Gainon, François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Col de la Plaine Morte; Cretaceous; Helvetic Zone; Selli event; Switzerland; Urgonian platform drowning

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATE; APTIAN; CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBONATE PLATFORM; CRETACEOUS; PELAGIC ENVIRONMENT; PHOSPHOGENESIS; SANTONIAN; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; SUCCESSION;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; SWITZERLAND; VOCONTIAN TROUGH; WESTERN EUROPE;

AMMONOIDEA; LUEHEIA;

EID: 43049172102     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2008.02.005     Document Type: Article

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