Ichnological trends along an open-water transect across a large marginal-marine epicontinental basin, the modern Baltic Sea

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 241, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 40-51

  Virtasalo, Joonas J ^a   Bonsdorff, Erik ^b   Moros, Matthias ^c   Kabel, Karoline ^c   Kotilainen, Aarno T ^a   Ryabchuk, Daria ^d   Kallonen, Aki ^e   Hämäläinen, Keijo ^e  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^b ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d A P KARPINSKY RUSSIAN GEOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Baltic Sea; Holocene; Ichnofossils; Mud; Oxygenation; Salinity

Indexed keywords

BALTIC SEA; HOLOCENES; ICHNOFOSSILS; MUD; SALINITY;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BIODIVERSITY; DEPOSITS; FEEDING; OXYGEN; OXYGENATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SURFICIAL SEDIMENTS;

SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

BIOGENIC DEPOSIT; HALOCLINE; HOLOCENE; ICHNOFACIES; ICHNOLOGY; INLAND SEA; MARGINAL BASIN; MARINE SEDIMENT; MUD; OPEN WATER; OXYGENATION; SALINITY; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

ARKONA BASIN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; GULF OF FINLAND;

BIVALVIA; CRUZIANA; MERMIA; PALAEOPHYCUS; PLANOLITES; SCOLICIA; SKOLITHOS;

EID: 82555187977     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2011.09.010     Document Type: Article

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