Permian-Triassic boundary in the northwest Karoo basin: Current stratigraphic placement, implications for basin development models, and the search for evidence of impact

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 356, Issue , 2002, Pages 429-444

  Hancox, P John ^a   Brandt, D ^a   Reimold, W U ^a   Koeberl, C ^b   Neveling, J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c Western Cape Regional Office   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; DEFORMATION;

ACCOMMODATION SPACE; CARBONATE CONCRETION; CHEMICAL SIGNATURES; DYNAMIC SUBSIDENCES; GEOCHEMICAL SIGNATURES; PERMIAN-TRIASSIC BOUNDARY; PLANAR DEFORMATION; SIDEROPHILE ELEMENTS;

WEATHERING;

AMPHIBIAN; BASIN EVOLUTION; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; FINE GRAINED SEDIMENT; FOSSIL RECORD; PERMIAN-TRIASSIC BOUNDARY; SANDSTONE; SUBSIDENCE; UNCONFORMITY;

KAROO; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84872000048     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2356-6.429     Document Type: Article

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