Skolithos pipe rock and associated ichnofabrics from the southern Rocky Mountains, Canada: Colonization trends and environmental controls in an early Cambrian sand-sheet complex

Lethaia

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 507-528

  Desjardins, Patricio R ^a   Gabriela Mangano M ^a   Buatois, Luis A ^a   Pratt, Brian R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMBRIAN; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; ICHNOFABRIC; LAURENTIA; MUDSTONE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SANDSTONE; STRATIGRAPHY;

ROCKY MOUNTAINS;

ANIMALIA; DIPLOCRATERION; PLANOLITES MONTANUS; SKOLITHOS; SKOLITHOS LINEARIS; TEICHICHNUS;

EID: 77958585028     PISSN: 00241164     EISSN: 15023931     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3931.2009.00214.x     Document Type: Article

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