Tectonic and eustatic control on a mixed siliciclastic-carbonate platform during the Late Oxfordian-Kimmeridgian (La Rochelle platform, western France)

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 223, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 334-359

  Carcel, Damien ^a,b   Colombié, Claude ^a,b   Giraud, Fabienne ^a,b   Courtinat, Bernard ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Depositional sequences; Facies analysis; Kimmeridgian; Micropaleontology; Mixed carbonate siliciclastic platform; Western France

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE PLATFORM; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; FACIES ANALYSIS; KIMMERIDGIAN; LIMESTONE; MARL; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; NANOFOSSIL; OXFORDIAN; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SEA LEVEL; SEQUENCE BOUNDARY; SILICICLASTIC DEPOSIT;

CHARENTE MARITIME; FRANCE; LA ROCHELLE; POITOU-CHARENTES;

AMMONOIDEA; ASCIDIA; BIVALVIA; CYCLAGELOSPHAERA MARGERELII; ECHINODERMATA; FORAMINIFERA; HAPTOPHYCEAE; WATZNAUERIA BRITANNICA;

EID: 75549086226     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2009.11.018     Document Type: Article

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