Facies arrangement and cyclostratigraphic architecture of a shallow-marine, warm-water carbonate platform: The Late Carboniferous Ny Friesland Platform in eastern Spitsbergen (Pyefjellet Beds, Wordiekammen Formation, Gipsdalen Group)

Facies

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 291-324

  Blomeier, Dierk ^a   Scheibner, Christian ^b   Forke, Holger ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carboniferous; Cyclostratigraphy; Parasequence; Pennsylvanian; Svalbard (Spitsbergen); Warm water carbonate platform

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE PLATFORM; CARBONIFEROUS; CYCLOSTRATIGRAPHY; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FACIES ANALYSIS; GLACIATION; GONDWANA; PARASEQUENCE; PROGRADATION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SYSTEMS TRACT; UPLIFT;

ARCTIC; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 64249125332     PISSN: 01729179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10347-008-0163-3     Document Type: Article

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