Sea-level dynamics and palaeoecological factors affecting trace fossil distribution in Eocene turbiditic deposits (Gorrondatxe section, N Spain)

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 285, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 50-65

  Rodríguez Tovar, Francisco J ^a   Uchman, Alfred ^b   Payros, Aitor ^c   Orue Etxebarria, Xabier ^c   Apellaniz, Estibaliz ^c   Molina, Eustoquio ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Benthic food; Eocene; Ichnology; Oxygenation; Sequence stratigraphy; Turbidites

Indexed keywords

DEEP-SEA SEDIMENT; EOCENE; EUTROPHICATION; ICHNOLOGY; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; OXYGENATION; PALEOECOLOGY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TRACE FOSSIL; TROPHIC LEVEL; TURBIDITE;

BASQUE COUNTRY; SPAIN; VIZCAYA;

NEREITES;

EID: 72449205429     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.10.022     Document Type: Article

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