Stratigraphic organisation, spatial distribution, palaeoenvironmental reconstruction, and demise of Lower Cretaceous (Barremian-lower Aptian) carbonate platforms of the Western Pontides (Black Sea region, Turkey)

Cretaceous Research

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1170-1180

  Masse, Jean Pierre ^a   Tüysüz, Okan ^b   Fenerci Masse, Mukerrem ^a   Özer, Sacit ^c   Sari, Bilal ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Barremian lower Aptian; Carbonate platform; Lower Cretaceous; Stratigraphic organisation; Western Pontides

Indexed keywords

APTIAN; BARREMIAN; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CALCAREOUS ALGA; CARBONATE PLATFORM; FORAMINIFERA; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MARKER BED; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; RECONSTRUCTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ANATOLIA; BLACK SEA; EURASIA; ISTANBUL [TURKEY]; PONTIDES; TURKEY; ZONGULDAK;

ALGAE; AMMONOIDEA; ANTHOZOA; CAPRINIDAE; CHARACEAE; FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 70349180728     PISSN: 01956671     EISSN: 1095998X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2009.05.004     Document Type: Article

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