Zonación ambiental de «mounds» algales del Carbonífero de la Zona Cantábrica (NO de España)

Limestones are conspicuous within the shallow water rocks of the Carboniferous (Namurian-Westphalian) foreland basin sequences of the Cantabrian Zone. These limestone bands, containing oustanding algal bioherms, show a well defined facies spectrum with three main boundstone facies (Donezelia boundst...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Fernández González, Luis P., Barba, Pedro
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:1992
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Huelva (UHU)
Repositorio:Arias Montano. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ariasmontano.uhu.es:10272/16410
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10272/16410
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Cantabrian Zone
Carboniferous
Algal mounds
Environmental parameters
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Sumario:Limestones are conspicuous within the shallow water rocks of the Carboniferous (Namurian-Westphalian) foreland basin sequences of the Cantabrian Zone. These limestone bands, containing oustanding algal bioherms, show a well defined facies spectrum with three main boundstone facies (Donezelia boundstone, Tu- biphytes-briozoa boundstone and phylloid algae boundstone). Both the entire facies association and' more specifically, the algal boun dstone facies showa pattern of distribution which seems to reflect the interplay amongst several environmental factors. Water depth and delta-derived efluents and its fine terrigenous (clay) suspension load are thought to have been the main controlling features through their influence in other parameters such as bottom energy, salinity and depth/llgth distribution and bottom illuminatio