Microbial patch reefs in Upper Ordovician Red River strata, Williston Basin, Saskatchewan: Signal of heating in a deteriorating epeiric sea

Special Paper - Geological Association of Canada

Volumn , Issue 48, 2008, Pages 303-340

  Pratt, Brian R ^a   Haidl, F M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b Saskatchewan Geological Survey   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; HYPERSALINE ENVIRONMENT; INLAND SEA; LIMESTONE; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; REEF; SALINITY;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; SASKATCHEWAN; WILLISTON BASIN;

ALGAE; ALMA; BRACHIOPODA; BRYOZOA; CRINOIDEA; CYANOBACTERIA; FORAMINIFERA; GASTROPODA; ORTHIDA; ORTONELLA; OSTRACODA; PALAEOPHYCUS; SERPULIDAE; STROPHOMENIDA; WETHEREDELLA;

EID: 59649101389     PISSN: 00721042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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