The record of Carboniferous sea-level change in low-latitude sedimentary successions from Britain and Ireland during the onset of the late Paleozoic ice age

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 441, Issue , 2008, Pages 187-204

  Davies, Sarah J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Glacio eustasy; Paleoclimate; Paleoequatorial; Sedimentary architecture

Indexed keywords

CARBONATION; DEPOSITS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ICE; PEAT; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

EUSTASY; EUSTATIC SEA-LEVEL RISE; LATE PALEOZOIC ICE AGE; NON-MARINE ENVIRONMENTS; OXYGEN STABLE ISOTOPES; PALEOCLIMATES; PALEOEQUATORIAL; SEDIMENTARY ARCHITECTURE;

SEA LEVEL;

CARBONATE PLATFORM; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; GLACIOEUSTACY; MISSISSIPPIAN; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOLATITUDE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TRANSGRESSION; WESTPHALIAN;

IRELAND; MIDLAND VALLEY; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 75249091088     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2008.2441(13)     Document Type: Article

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