The Late Ordovician glacio-eustatic record from a high-latitude storm-dominated shelf succession: The Bou Ingarf section (Anti-Atlas, Southern Morocco)

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 296, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 332-358

  Loi, A ^a   Ghienne, J F ^b   Dabard, M P ^c   Paris, F ^c   Botquelen, A ^d   Christ, N ^b   Elaouad Debbaj, Z ^e   Gorini, A ^a   Vidal, M ^d   Videt, B ^c   Destombes, J ^f  

^a Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE OCCIDENTALE   (France)

^e Ecole Nationale de l'Industrie Minerale   (Morocco)

^f NONE   (France)

Author keywords

Forced regression; Hirnantian; Ice sheet; Katian; Sea level; Sequence stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BIOZONATION; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; GLACIATION; GLACIOEUSTACY; GONDWANA; HIRNANTIAN; ICE CAP; ICE SHEET; PALEOCHANNEL; PALEOECOLOGY; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ANTI ATLAS; ATLAS MOUNTAINS; MOROCCO;

CHITINOZOA;

EID: 77956903990     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.01.018     Document Type: Article

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