Influence of hydro-sedimentary factors on mollusc death assemblages in a temperate mixed tide-and-wave dominated coastal environment: Implications for the fossil record

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 30, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 1876-1890

  Poirier, Clément ^a   Sauriau, Pierre Guy ^a,b   Chaumillon, Eric ^a   Bertin, Xavier ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LA ROCHELLE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c NATIONAL LABORATORY FOR CIVIL ENGINEERING   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Benthos; Estuary; Holocene; Paleoecology; Sediment budget; Taphonomy

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; BOTTOM STRESS; COASTAL ZONE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; FOSSIL RECORD; GRAIN SIZE; HABITAT TYPE; HOLOCENE; HYDRODYNAMICS; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; MOLLUSC; MORTALITY; MUDFLAT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SEAFLOOR; SEDIMENT BUDGET; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TAPHONOMY; TAXONOMY; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT;

CHARENTE MARITIME; FRANCE; PERTUIS CHARENTAIS; POITOU-CHARENTES;

MOLLUSCA;

EID: 77957371821     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2010.08.015     Document Type: Article

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