Environmental controls on shell-rich facies in tropical lacustrine rifts: A view from Lake Tanganyika's littoral

Palaios

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 426-438

  McGlue, Michael M ^a   Soreghan, Michael J ^b   Michel, Ellinor ^c   Todd, Jonathan A ^c   Cohen, Andrew S ^a   Mischler, John ^d   O'Connell, Christine S ^e   Castañeda, Oceana S ^f   Hartwell, Richard J ^g   Lezzar, Kiram E ^a   Nkotagu, Hudson H ^h  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Dartmouth College ^*  (United States)

^g Earth and Atmospheric Science Program   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABRASION; CARBONATE SEDIMENT; ENDEMIC SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FACIES; FOSSIL RECORD; GASTROPOD; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MOLLUSC; PALEOECOLOGY; RADIOCARBON DATING; RIFT ZONE; SHELL; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TAPHONOMY; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

EAST AFRICAN LAKES; LAKE TANGANYIKA;

GASTROPODA; MOLLUSCA; NEOTHAUMA;

EID: 77954014607     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/palo.2009.p09-160r     Document Type: Article

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