Stratigraphic, sedimentological and palaeoenvironmental constraints on the rise of the Urgonian platform in the western Swiss Jura

Sedimentology

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1088-1125

  Godet, Alexis ^a,b,c   Föllmi, Karl B ^a,c   Bodin, Stéphane ^a,d   de Kaenel, Eric ^e   Matera, Virginie ^a   Adatte, Thierry ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^b Neftex Petroleum Consultants Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^e DeKaenel Paleo Research   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Barremian; Early Cretaceous; Nannofossil biostratigraphy; Phosphorus; Sequence stratigraphy; Urgonian; Western Swiss Jura

Indexed keywords

BARREMIAN; BIOCLASTIC SEDIMENT; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CARBONATE PLATFORM; CARBONATE SEDIMENT; CRETACEOUS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NANOFOSSIL; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; OOLITE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PHOSPHORUS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

JURA [SWITZERLAND]; JURA MOUNTAINS; SWITZERLAND;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 77954025775     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2009.01137.x     Document Type: Article

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