Character and Genesis of the Ingersoll shale, a compact continental fossil-Lagerstätte, Upper Cretaceous Eutaw Formation, eastern Alabama

Palaios

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 391-401

  Bingham, P Sean ^a   Savrda, Charles E ^a   Knight, Terrell K ^a   Lewis, Ronald D ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMINERALIZATION; BIOTURBATION; CRETACEOUS; DEPOSITION; LAGERSTATTE; PRESERVATION; SHALE; TRANSGRESSION;

ALABAMA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 45249123442     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/palo.2007.p07-055r     Document Type: Article

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