Sequence stratigraphy and onlap history of the Donets Basin, Ukraine: Insight into Carboniferous icehouse dynamics

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 313-314, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-25

  Eros, J M ^a,e   Montanez I P ^a   Osleger, D A ^a   Davydov, V I ^b   Nemyrovska, T I ^c   Poletaev, V I ^c   Zhykalyak, M V ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Ukraine)

^d Donetsk State Regional Geological Survey   (Ukraine)

^e EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carboniferous paleoclimate; Carboniferous sea level; Cyclothems; Donets Basin; Glacioeustasy; Orbital forcing; Sequences

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; CARBONIFEROUS; FACIES; GLACIATION; ICE SHEET; LATITUDE; MOSCOVIAN; ORBITAL FORCING; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PENNSYLVANIAN; PLEISTOCENE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEMIARID REGION; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; TIMESCALE; VOLUME;

DONETS BASIN;

EID: 84855845416     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.08.019     Document Type: Article

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