Palaeoenvironmental and palaeoecological change on the northern Tethyan carbonate platform during the Late Barremian to earliest Aptian

Sedimentology

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 939-963

  Stein, Melody ^a   Arnaud Vanneau, Annie ^b   Adatte, Thierry ^a   Fleitmann, Dominik ^c   Spangenberg, Jorge E ^a   Föllmi, Karl B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b Institut Dolomieu   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aptian; Barremian; Carbon isotopes; Carbonate platform; Clay mineralogy; Cretaceous; Helvetic alps; Microfacies; Orbitolinids; Phosphorus

Indexed keywords

APTIAN; BARREMIAN; CARBON ISOTOPES; CARBONATE PLATFORM; CLAY MINERALOGY; CRETACEOUS; HELVETIC ALPS; MICROFACIES; ORBITOLINIDS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ISOTOPES; KAOLINITE; MINERALS; PHOSPHORUS; STRATIGRAPHY; UNDERWATER MINERALOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

APTIAN; BARREMIAN; CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBONATE PLATFORM; CARBONATE ROCK; CLAY MINERAL; CLIMATE VARIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FACIES ANALYSIS; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; MINERALOGY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PHOSPHORUS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SHALLOW WATER; SILICICLASTIC DEPOSIT;

BRYOZOA; FORAMINIFERA; MILIOLINA; ORBITOLINA; ORBITOLINIDAE; PELMATOZOA;

EID: 84858698472     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2011.01286.x     Document Type: Article

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