Present-day and fossil rhodolith pavements compared: Their potential for analysing shallow-water carbonate deposits

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 214, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 74-84

  Bassi, Davide ^a   Nebelsick, James H ^b   Checconi, Alessio ^c   Hohenegger, Johann ^d   Iryu, Yasufumi ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^e TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coralline red algae; Eocene; Oligocene; Palaeoecology; Recent; Rhodoliths

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE SEDIMENT; CORALLINE ALGA; EOCENE; FOSSIL; OLIGOCENE; PALEOECOLOGY; PAVEMENT; RED ALGA; RHODOLITH; SHALLOW WATER;

ALGAE; RHODOPHYTA; SPOROLITHACEAE;

EID: 61349199506     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2008.03.010     Document Type: Article

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