Cyclic upwelling facies along the Late Cretaceous southern Tethys (Israel): taphonomic and ichnofacies evidence of a high-productivity mosaic

Cretaceous Research

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 847-863

  Edelman Furstenberg, Y ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

Late cretaceous; Mollusks; Sediment cyclicity; Shell beds; Taphonomy; Upwelling

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CRETACEOUS; CYCLICITY; MACROBENTHOS; MOLLUSC; PALEONTOLOGY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SHELL BED; TAPHONOMY; TRACE FOSSIL; UPWELLING;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST;

MOLLUSCA;

EID: 67349155276     PISSN: 01956671     EISSN: 1095998X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2009.01.005     Document Type: Article

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