Trace fossils as diagnostic indicators of deep-marine environments, Middle Eocene Ainsa-Jaca basin, Spanish Pyrenees

Sedimentology

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 809-844

  Heard, Thomas G ^a,b   Pickering, Kevin T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Chevron   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clastic; Deep marine; Ichnofacies; Trace fossils

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; EOCENE; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; ICHNOFACIES; SUBMARINE FAN; TRACE FOSSIL;

AINSA BASIN; ARAGON; EURASIA; EUROPE; HUESCA [ARAGON]; JACA BASIN; PYRENEES; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

NEREITES;

EID: 47649123840     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2007.00922.x     Document Type: Article

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