Miocene intertidal zonation on a volcanically active shoreline: Porto Santo in the Madeira Archipelago, Portugal

Lethaia

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 26-32

  Santos, Ana ^a   Mayoral, Eduardo J ^a   Da Silva, Carlos M ^b   Cachão, Mário ^b   Johnson, Markes E ^c   Baarli, B Gudveig ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HUELVA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^c WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOZONATION; BORING ORGANISM; CLIFF; COASTAL ZONE; COLONIZATION; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; MIOCENE; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SEA LEVEL; SHORELINE; TRACE FOSSIL; VOLCANISM;

MADEIRA; PORTO SANTO; PORTUGAL;

ANTHOZOA; BALANUS SP.; BIVALVIA; GASTROCHAENOLITES; ISOPHYLLASTREA; SERPULIDAE; SPONDYLUS; THORACICA;

EID: 79551508954     PISSN: 00241164     EISSN: 15023931     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3931.2010.00222.x     Document Type: Article

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