Cambrian stratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the Flinders Ranges and the north coast of Kangaroo Island, South Australia

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Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 247-255

  Jago, James B ^a   Gehling, James G ^b   Paterson, John R ^c   Brock, Glenn A ^d   Zang, Wenlong ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^d MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e Oroya Mining Ltd   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CAMBRIAN; CARBONATE SEDIMENT; CONGLOMERATE; EDIACARAN; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TRILOBITE;

AUSTRALIA; FLINDERS RANGE; KANGAROO ISLAND; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

ACRITARCHA; ANOMALOCARIS; ARCHAEOCYATHA; ARTHROPODA; BRACHIOPODA; MOLLUSCA; NEKTASPIDA; PALAEOSCOLECIDA; TRILOBITOMORPHA; VETULICOLIA;

EID: 84877310700     PISSN: 07053797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18814/epiiugs/2012/v35i1/024     Document Type: Article

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