Acritarchs from the Ordovician-Silurian boundary beds of the Valga-10 drill core, southern Estonia (Baltica) and their stratigraphical and palaeobiogeographical implications

Palynology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 4-45

  Delabroye, Aurélien ^a,b   Vecoli, Marco ^b   Hints, Olle ^c   Servais, Thomas ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIV LILLE   (France)

^c TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

Author keywords

acritarchs; Baltica; biostratigraphy; Gondwana; Laurentia; Ordovician Silurian boundary; palaeobiogeography

Indexed keywords

ACRITARCH; BATHYMETRY; BENTHOS; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CARBON ISOTOPE; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; CHITIN; CORRELATION; DRILLING; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GLACIATION; LATITUDE; MICROFOSSIL; MIGRATION; NEKTON; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PHYTOPLANKTON; PLANKTON; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SEA LEVEL; SILURIAN; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY; WATER MASS;

ESTONIA;

ACRITARCHA; CHITINOZOA; EVITTIA; OSTRACODA; PRASINOPHYCEAE;

EID: 79957658263     PISSN: 01916122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01916122.2010.491639     Document Type: Article

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