The Upper Triassic crenogenic limestones in Upper Silesia (southern Poland) and their paleoenvironmental context

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 416, Issue , 2006, Pages 133-151

  Szulc, Joachim ^a   Gradziński, Michał ^a   Lewandowska, Anna ^a   Heunisch, Carmen ^b  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b Niedersächsisches Landesamt für Bodenforschung   (Germany)

Author keywords

Freshwater limestones; Paleoenvironments; Poland; Travertines; Upper Triassic

Indexed keywords

CARBONATES; CARBONATION; GROUNDWATER; LIME; SEDIMENTS;

CARBONATE SEDIMENTATIONS; FLUVIAL SEDIMENTATIONS; PALEOENVIRONMENTS; PEDOGENIC CARBONATES; POLAND; SEMIARID CLIMATIC CONDITION; TRAVERTINES; UPPER TRIASSIC;

LIMESTONE;

BASIN; BRECCIA; CARBONATE; CARNIAN; CLASTIC SEDIMENT; DEPOSITION; FACIES; FRESHWATER; KARST; LIMESTONE; NORIAN; PALEOZOIC; RED BED; SEDIMENTATION; WEATHERING;

POLAND; SILESIA; UPPER SILESIA;

EID: 50249084730     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2006.2416(09)     Document Type: Article

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