Eocene-miocene shallow-water carbonate platforms and increased habitat diversity in Sarawak, Malaysia

Palaios

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 378-391

  Mihaljević, Morana ^a   Renema, Willem ^b   Welsh, Kevin ^a   Pandolfi, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE SEDIMENT; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; EOCENE; HABITAT STRUCTURE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MIOCENE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SHALLOW WATER;

EAST MALAYSIA; MALAYSIA; SARAWAK;

EID: 84908612857     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: 19385323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/palo.2013.129     Document Type: Article

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