Increased terrigenous influx but no drowning: Palaeoenvironmental evolution of the Tunisian carbonate platform margin during the Late Aptian

Sedimentology

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 695-719

  Heldt, M ^a   Lehmann, J ^a   Bachmann, M ^a   Negra, H ^b   Kuss, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TUNIS   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Aptian; Biostratigraphy; Carbonate platform; Chemostratigraphy; Global climate change; Microfacies

Indexed keywords

APTIAN; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CARBONATE PLATFORM; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; CLIMATE VARIATION; MICROFACIES; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TERRIGENOUS DEPOSIT;

TUNISIA;

CHLOROPHYTA;

EID: 74549141406     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2009.01115.x     Document Type: Article

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