Environmental change in the Early Permian of NE Svalbard: From a warm-water carbonate platform (Gipshuken Formation) to a temperate, mixed siliciclastic-carbonate ramp (Kapp Starostin Formation)

Facies

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 493-523

  Blomeier, Dierk ^a   Dustira, Anna ^b   Forke, Holger ^c   Scheibner, Christian ^d  

^a NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carbonate platform; Early Permian; Environmental change; Mixed siliciclastic carbonate ramp; Sabkha; Svalbard (Spitsbergen); Tempestites

Indexed keywords

BIOHERM; BIOTIC FACTOR; BRECCIA; CARBONATE PLATFORM; CARBONATE RAMP; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FACIES ANALYSIS; LIMESTONE; MICROBIALITE; MUDSTONE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PERMIAN; SABKHA; SILICICLASTIC DEPOSIT; TEMPESTITE; WARM WATER;

ARCTIC; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

ALGAE; BRYOZOA; MICROCODIUM; SKOLITHOS;

EID: 79958799405     PISSN: 01729179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10347-010-0243-z     Document Type: Article

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