Early Middle Frasnian platform reef strata in the Moravian Karst interpreted as recording the atmospheric dust changes: The key to understanding perturbations in the punctata conodont zone

Bulletin of Geosciences

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 75-106

  Hladil, Jindřich ^a   Koptíková, Leona ^a   Galle, Arnošt ^a   Sedlácek, Václav ^a   Pruner, Petr ^a   Schnabl, Petr ^a   Langrová, Anna ^a   Bábek, Ondřej ^a   Frána, Jaroslav ^a   Hladíková, Jana ^a   Otava, Jiří ^a   Geršl, Milan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Alamo impact event; Brunovistulian terrane; Climate conditions; Czech Republic; Gamma ray spectrometry; Geochemistry; Magnetic susceptibility; Mid punctata Zone perturbations; Mineral dust; Moravia; Platform reef; Sedimentary rhythms; Sedimentation of particulates; Stromatactis; Upper Devonian

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CONODONT; DEPOSITION; FACIES ANALYSIS; FRASNIAN; GAMMA RAY SPECTROMETRY; LIMESTONE; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOKARST; REEF; SEDIMENTATION RATE; TAXONOMY;

CENTRAL EUROPE; CZECH REPUBLIC; EURASIA; EUROPE; MORAVIA;

ALLIUM CEPA;

EID: 69349087815     PISSN: 12141119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3140/bull.geosci.1113     Document Type: Article

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