Origin of Lower Triassic microbialites in mixed carbonate-siliciclastic successions: Ichnology, applied stratigraphy, and the end-Permian mass extinction

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 300, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 158-178

  Mata, Scott A ^a   Bottjer, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biotic recovery; Early Triassic; Stromatolites; Trace fossils; Wrinkle structures

Indexed keywords

BIOTURBATION; CARBONATE; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FACIES; ICHNOLOGY; MASS EXTINCTION; MICROBIAL MAT; MICROBIALITE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PERMIAN; SILICICLASTIC DEPOSIT; STROMATOLITE; TRACE FOSSIL; TRIASSIC;

EID: 79551485125     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.12.022     Document Type: Article

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