Biosedimentology of the Early Jurassic post-extinction carbonate depositional system, central High Atlas rift basin, Morocco

Sedimentology

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 773-807

  Wilmsen, Markus ^a,b   Neuweiler, Fritz ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Carbonate build ups; Carbonate depositional system; Liassic; Morocco; Post extinction biosedimentology; Rift basin

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; CARBONATE PLATFORM; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; JURASSIC; LITHOFACIES; MASS EXTINCTION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SINEMURIAN; STABLE ISOTOPE; TOARCIAN;

AFRICA; ATLAS MOUNTAINS; HIGH ATLAS; MOROCCO; NORTH AFRICA; TADLA-AZILAL;

BIVALVIA; BRACHIOPODA; PELMATOZOA; POLYCHAETA;

EID: 47649117591     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2007.00921.x     Document Type: Article

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