Ichnology of a Late Palaeozoic ice-marginal shallow marine succession: Talchir Formation, Satpura Gondwana basin, central India

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 283, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 28-45

  Sarkar, Soumen ^a   Ghosh, Sanjoy Kumar ^a   Chakraborty, Chandan ^a  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Central India; Glaciomarine; Gondwana; Late Palaeozoic; Trace fossils

Indexed keywords

ANNELID; BIOTURBATION; BURROW; CRUSTACEAN; DEGLACIATION; FAN DELTA; ICE MARGIN; ICHNOFACIES; ICHNOLOGY; MUDSTONE; OUTWASH; PALEOZOIC; SANDSTONE; SUCCESSION; TRACE FOSSIL;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; MADHYA PRADESH; SATPURA BASIN; SOUTH ASIA;

ANIMALIA; ANNELIDA; ARCHAEONASSA; COCHLICHNUS; CRUSTACEA; CRUZIANA; HELMINTHOPSIS (TRACE FOSSIL); PLANOLITES; PSAMMICHNITES; RHIZOCORALLIUM; SKOLITHOS; TEICHICHNUS; ZOOPHYCOS;

EID: 70349816457     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.09.001     Document Type: Article

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