Ichnological evidence for the environmental setting of the Fossil-Lagerstatten in the Devonian Hunsruck Slate, Germany

Geology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 275-278

  Sutcliffe, Owen E ^a,c   Briggs, Derek E G ^a   Bartels, Christoph ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b Deutsches Bergbau Museum   (Germany)

^c ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; SEDIMENTS;

DEVONIANS; ECOLOGICAL GROUPS; FINE GRAINED; GEOCHEMICAL CONDITIONS; SEDIMENT WATER INTERFACE; SOFT TISSUE; TRACE FOSSILS; WATER COLUMNS;

SLATE;

DEVONIAN; ICHNOLOGY; PYRITE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SLATE;

GERMANY;

EID: 84874968240     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1999)027<0275:IEFTES>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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