Chemical signatures of the Permian-Triassic transitional environment in Spiti Valley, India

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 356, Issue , 2002, Pages 445-453

  Shukla, A D ^a   Bhandari, N ^a   Shukla, P N ^a  

^a PHYSICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIME;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; CHEMICAL SIGNATURES; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; MIXED MINERALS; MULTIPLE COMPONENTS; SEDIMENTARY STRATA; SUDDEN EVENTS; TRANSITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS;

LITHOLOGY;

ANOXIA; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; GEOCHEMICAL SURVEY; LIMESTONE; MINERAL PROPERTY; PERMIAN-TRIASSIC BOUNDARY; SHALE;

HIMACHAL PRADESH; HIMALAYAS; INDIA; SPITI VALLEY;

EID: 84871998704     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2356-6.445     Document Type: Article

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