Late Devonian sea-level changes, catastrophic events, and mass extinctions

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 356, Issue , 2002, Pages 473-487

  Sandberg, Charles A ^a   Morrow, Jared R ^b   Ziegler, Willi ^c  

^a DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO   (United States)

^c SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

CARBONATE PLATFORMS; CATASTROPHIC EVENT; DIFFERENT EFFECTS; EVENT STRATIGRAPHIES; MASS EXTINCTION; SEALEVEL CHANGE; SEPARATED REGION; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE;

SEA LEVEL;

CARBONATE PLATFORM; CATASTROPHIC EVENT; DEVONIAN; GLACIOEUSTACY; MASS EXTINCTION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE;

GERMANY;

EID: 84871968203     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2356-6.473     Document Type: Article

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