Oxfordian to Valanginian palaeoenvironmental evolution on the western Moesian carbonate Platform: A case study from SW Bulgaria

Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 65-90

  Ivanova, Daria ^a   Kolodziej, Bogus'aw ^b   Koleva Rekalova, Elena ^a   Roniewicz, Ewa ^c  

^a GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Bulgaria)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c INSTITUTE OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Biostratigraphy; Bulgaria; Carbonate sedimentology; Lyubash unit; Moesian Platform; Oxfordian Valanginian; Reefs

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CARBONATE PLATFORM; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FACIES; FORAMINIFERA; KIMMERIDGIAN; MICROBIALITE; OXFORDIAN; PALEOENVIRONMENT; REEF FORMATION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENTATION; VALANGINIAN;

BULGARIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; MOESIAN PLATFORM; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ANTHOZOA; DINOPHYCEAE; FORAMINIFERA; SACCOCOMA;

EID: 63049121343     PISSN: 02089068     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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