A new upper Middle Ordovician-Lower Silurian drillcore standard succession from Borenshult in Östergötland, southern Sweden: 1. Stratigraphical review with regional comparisons

GFF

Volumn 133, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 149-171

  Bergström, Stig M ^a   Calner, Mikael ^b   Lehnert, Oliver ^c   Noor, Amir ^d  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Borenshult fauna; conodont biostratigraphy; Middle and Upper Ordovician; Rhuddanian; stratigraphy; Sweden

Indexed keywords

BENTONITE; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CONODONT; CORE ANALYSIS; CORE LOGGING; LITHOLOGY; ORDOVICIAN; PALEONTOLOGY; SILURIAN;

MOTALA BASIN; OSTERGOTLAND; SWEDEN; VASTERGOTLAND; VASTRA GOTALAND;

AMORPHOGNATHUS; AMORPHOGNATHUS ORDOVICICUS; OZARKODINA;

EID: 84859032538     PISSN: 11035897     EISSN: 20000863     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11035897.2011.622049     Document Type: Article

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