The ichnology of the fluvial-tidal transition: Interplay of ecologic and evolutionary controls

Developments in Sedimentology

Volumn 68, Issue , 2015, Pages 283-321

  Diez Canseco D ^a,e   Buatois, L A ^b   Mángano, M Gabriela ^b   Rodriguez, W ^b,c   Solorzano, E ^b,d  

^a INSTITUTO DE GEOCIENCIAS   (Spain)

^b Catalunya GeoResearch Geoplay   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^d Estado Anzoátegui ^*  (Venezuela)

^e PDVSA INTEVEP   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Brackish water ichnofauna; Composite ichnofabric; Depauperate Cruziana Ichnofacies; Evolutionary control; Fluvial tidal transition; Freshwater ichnofauna; Mixed Mermia and Scoyenia ichnofacies; Paleoenvironmental control; Trace fossils

Indexed keywords

EID: 84978252592     PISSN: 00704571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-63529-7.00009-2     Document Type: Chapter

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