Late Pleistocene and Holocene cool-water carbonates of the Western Mediterranean Sea

Sedimentology

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 643-669

  Betzler, Christian ^a   Braga, Juan C ^b   Jaramillo Vogel, David ^c   Römer, Miriam ^d   Hübscher, Christian ^a   Schmiedl, Gerhard ^a   Lindhorst, Sebastian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^c Chemin du Musée 6 Pérolles ^*  (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alboran Ridge; Bay of Oran; Mallorca Shelf; Meteor Cruise 69; Post glacial cool water carbonates; Rhodalgal lithofacies

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; CALCITE; CARBONATION; DEPOSITS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; MAGNESIUM; MOLLUSCS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; STRATIGRAPHY; UNDERWATER MINERALOGY;

ALBORAN RIDGE; BAY OF ORAN; COOL-WATER CARBONATES; LITHOFACIES; MALLORCA; METEOR CRUISE;

SEA LEVEL;

CARBONATE; COOL WATER; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; FACIES ANALYSIS; HOLOCENE; MESOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; POSTGLACIAL; RECONSTRUCTION; RHODOLITH; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; SUBTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; TRANSGRESSION; UNCONFORMITY; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ALBORAN SEA; BALEARIC ISLANDS; MAJORCA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (WEST); SPAIN;

ALGAE; BIVALVIA; GASTROPODA; RHODOPHYTA; SERPULIDAE; TURRITELLA;

EID: 79952594236     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2010.01177.x     Document Type: Article

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