Triassic/Jurassic carbonates from Western Sicily: Their facies and implications for the end-Triassic biotic crisis

Rendiconti Online Societa Geologica Italiana

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages 57-60

  Cacciatore, Maria Simona ^a   Di Stefano, Pietro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Jurassic; Platform basin transition; Reef; Sicily; T J boundary; Triassic

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863197021     PISSN: 20358008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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