High frequency eustatic sea-level changes during the Middle to early Late Ordovician of southern Jordan: Indirect evidence for a Darriwilian Ice Age in Gondwana

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 251-252, Issue , 2012, Pages 34-48

  Turner, Brian R ^a   Armstrong, Howard A ^a   Wilson, Charles R ^a   Makhlouf, Issa M ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b HASHEMITE UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Glacio eustacy; Ice sheets; Ordovician; Sequence stratigraphy; Southern Jordan

Indexed keywords

GLACIO-EUSTACY; ICE SHEETS; ORDOVICIAN; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SOUTHERN JORDAN;

GLACIERS; ISOTOPES; METALS; SEA LEVEL; STRATIGRAPHY;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

CARBON ISOTOPE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CORRELATION; DISLOCATION; ECCENTRICITY; EUSTACY; GONDWANA; ICE SHEET; ORDOVICIAN; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TRANSITION ZONE;

JORDAN;

EID: 84858276092     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2012.01.002     Document Type: Article

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