Acritarchs and their potential in Ediacaran biostratigraphy - Examples from the Officer Basin, Australia

Comunicacoes Geologicas

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 81-92

  Willman, Sebastian ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Acritarchs; Australia; Biostratigraphy; Ediacaran; Neoproterozoic; Officer Basin

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884486509     PISSN: 0873948X     EISSN: 1647581X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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