Late Ordovician-earliest Silurian palynomorphs from northern Chad and correlation with contemporaneous deposits of southeastern Libya

Bulletin of Geosciences

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 483-504

  Le Hérisé, Alain ^a   Paris, Forentin ^b,c   Steemans, Philippe ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE OCCIDENTALE   (France)

^b Rue des Jonquilles ^*  (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Acritarchs; Biostratigraphy; Chad; Chitinozoans; Libya; northern Gondwana; Ordovician silurian boundary; Palaeoenvironment; Spores

Indexed keywords

ACRITARCH; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BLACK SHALE; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; FOSSIL RECORD; GONDWANA; ORDOVICIAN-SILURIAN BOUNDARY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOMORPH; SILTSTONE; SPORE; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION;

CHAD; LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA;

ACRITARCHA; CHITINOZOA; GLOEOCAPSOMORPHA; TASMANITES;

EID: 84879595389     PISSN: 12141119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3140/bull.geosci.1383     Document Type: Article

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