Skeletal carbonate productivity and phosphogenesis at the lower-middle Cambrian transition of Scania, southern Sweden

Geological Magazine

Volumn 147, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 59-76

  Álvaro, J Javier ^a   Ahlberg, Per ^b   Axheimer, Niklas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Apatite; Baltica; Carbonate productivity; Chemostratigraphy; Glauconite

Indexed keywords

APATITE; LIME; LIMESTONE; MICA; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; PYRITES; STRATIGRAPHY;

BALTICA; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; ENERGY CONDITION; GLAUCONITE; NUTRIENT SUPPLY; PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; REDUCING ENVIRONMENT; SHALE FORMATION;

CARBONATION;

APATITE; BALTICA; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CAMBRIAN; CARBONATE; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; GLAUCONITE; LIMESTONE; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; NUCLEATION; PARASEQUENCE; PHOSPHOGENESIS; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; REWORKING; UNCONFORMITY;

SKANE; SWEDEN;

ACADOPARADOXIDES; BRACHIOPODA; CHANCELLORIIDAE; ECHINODERMATA; HOLMIA KJERULFI; PTYCHAGNOSTUS GIBBUS; TRILOBITOMORPHA;

EID: 77953619605     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: 14695081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756809990021     Document Type: Article

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