Quantifying the impacts of early diagenetic aragonite dissolution on the fossil record

Palaios

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 756-771

  Cherns, Lesley ^a   Wright, V Paul ^a,b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARAGONITE; BIVALVE; BRACHIOPOD; CARBONIFEROUS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DISSOLUTION; FAUNISTICS; FOSSIL RECORD; GASTROPOD; MESOZOIC; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOECOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SKELETAL REMAINS;

BIVALVIA; BRACHIOPODA; GASTROPODA;

EID: 78649534115     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/palo.2008.p08-134r     Document Type: Article

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