Palynological and palynofacies analysis of early Silurian shales from borehole CDEG-2a in Dor el Gussa, eastern Murzuq Basin, Libya

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 174, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-26

  Paris, Florentin ^a   Thusu, Bindra ^b   Rasul, Syed ^b   Meinhold, Guido ^c,d   Strogen, Dominic ^c,e   Howard, James P ^c   Abutarruma, Yousef ^f   Elgadry, Mohamed ^g   Whitham, Andrew G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^e GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^f Earth Science Society of Libya   (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)

^g LIBYAN PETROLEUM INSTITUTE   (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)

Author keywords

Acritarchs; Biostratigraphy; Chitinozoans; Gondwana; Libya; Silurian

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BIOZONATION; BOREHOLE; CHITIN; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FACIES; GONDWANA; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; ORDOVICIAN-SILURIAN BOUNDARY; ORGANIC MATTER; PALYNOLOGY; PALYNOMORPH; SHALE; SILURIAN;

LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA; MURZUQ BASIN;

ACRITARCHA; CHITINOZOA; SPINACHITINA;

EID: 84858161913     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2012.02.002     Document Type: Article

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