Facies and sequences of the Late Cambrian-Early Ordovician carbonates of the Argentine Precordillera: A stratigraphic comparison with Laurentian platforms

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 336, Issue , 1999, Pages 43-62

  Cañas, Fernando L ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE QUÍMICA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBSIDENCE;

CAMBRIAN-ORDOVICIAN BOUNDARY; CAMBRO-ORDOVICIAN; CARBONATE PLATFORMS; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCES; DIFFERENT STAGES; EARLY ORDOVICIAN; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; SEDIMENTARY RECORDS;

CARBONATES;

CAMBRIAN; CARBONATE PLATFORM; FACIES ANALYSIS; GONDWANA; LAURENTIA; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOZOIC; PARALLEL EVOLUTION; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; SUBSIDENCE;

EID: 84870879320     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2336-1.43     Document Type: Article

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