Anachronistic facies from a drowned Lower Triassic carbonate platform: Lower member of the Alwa Formation (Ba'id Exotic), Oman Mountains

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 209, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 1-14

  Woods, Adam D ^a   Baud, Aymon ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Parc de la Rouvraie 28   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Anachronistic facies; Early Triassic; Frutexites; Seafloor precipitates; Thrombolites

Indexed keywords

ARAGONITE; CALCITE; CARBONATE PLATFORM; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FACIES; GONDWANA; LIMESTONE; MASS EXTINCTION; MICROBIALITE; PERMIAN-TRIASSIC BOUNDARY; SUPERSATURATION; TETHYS; THROMBOLITE;

ASIA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST; OMAN; OMAN MOUNTAINS;

AMMONOIDEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COCCOIDEA;

EID: 50149103765     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2008.06.002     Document Type: Article

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