From black-and-white to colour in the Silurian

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 367-368, Issue , 2012, Pages 178-192

  Ferretti, Annalisa ^a   Cavalazzi, Barbara ^b,c   Barbieri, Roberto ^d   Westall, Frances ^c   Foucher, Frédéric ^c   Todesco, Rossana ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

^c CENTRE DE BIOPHYSIQUE MOLÉCULAIRE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^e MUSEO TRIDENTINO DI SCIENZE NATURALI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Carnic alps; Colours; Laminated ferruginous structures; Microbes; Silurian

Indexed keywords

ALGAL BLOOM; CEPHALOPOD; COATING; COLOR; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ECHINODERM; FOSSIL RECORD; FRAGMENTATION; LATITUDE; LIMESTONE; MATRIX; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROSCOPY; MINERAL DEPOSIT; PALEOZOIC; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SEAWATER; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; SHALE; SILURIAN; STROMATOLITE;

ALPS; AUSTRIA;

CEPHALOPODA; COCCOIDEA; ECHINODERMATA; TRILOBITOMORPHA;

EID: 84870393414     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.10.025     Document Type: Article

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