Components, facies and ramps: Redefining Upper Oligocene shallow water carbonates using coralline red algae and larger foraminifera (Venetian area, northeast Italy)

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 295, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 258-280

  Bassi, Davide ^a   Nebelsick, James H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coralline red algae; Homoclinal ramps; Larger foraminifera; Mixed carbonate siliciclastics; Oligocene; Rhodoliths; Venetian area

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; CORALLINE ALGA; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; DOMINANCE; FORELAND BASIN; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; MICROFACIES; OLIGOCENE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; RED ALGA; RHODOLITH; SANDSTONE; SHALLOW WATER; SILICICLASTIC DEPOSIT;

ITALY; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND; SOUTHERN ALPS;

ALGAE; FORAMINIFERA; RHODOPHYTA;

EID: 77955266456     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.06.003     Document Type: Article

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