Late Paleozoic cyclic strata of Euramerica: Recognition of Gondwanan glacial signatures during periods of thermal subsidence

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 441, Issue , 2008, Pages 219-233

  Gibling, M R ^a   Rygel, M C ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT POTSDAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Carboniferous; Cyclothems; Gondwanan glaciation; Sequence stratigraphy; Thermal subsidence

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ICE; SEA LEVEL; STRATIGRAPHY;

ARID CONDITIONS; CARBONIFEROUS; CYCLOTHEMS; GLACIAL ACTIVITY; GONDWANAN GLACIATION; HUMID CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; SEALEVEL CHANGE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

SUBSIDENCE;

CYCLIC SEDIMENTATION; CYCLOTHEM; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; GLACIATION; GLACIOEUSTACY; GONDWANA; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOLATITUDE; PALEOSOL; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SUBSIDENCE; VISEAN;

CANADA; EUROPE; MARITIME PROVINCES;

EID: 75249090196     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2008.2441(15)     Document Type: Article

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