Palaeozoic low-oxygen, high-latitude carbonates: Silurian and Lower Devonian nautiloid and scyphocrinoid limestones of the Anti-Atlas (Morocco)

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 264, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 195-209

  Lubeseder, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cephalopod limestones; Cool water carbonates; Gondwana; Oceanic circulation model; Sequence stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID; DEVONIAN; MODELING; PALEOZOIC; SILURIAN; UPWELLING;

AFRICA; NORTH AFRICA;

ANTHOZOA; BIVALVIA; CEPHALOPODA; CRINOIDEA; NAUTILIDA; PELMATOZOA; PRAGIA;

EID: 45049083340     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2008.04.007     Document Type: Article

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