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Corals on the slope (Aptian, Maestrat Basin, Spain)

Bover-Arnal, Telm ; Löser, Hannes ; Moreno-Bedmar, Josep Anton ; Salas, Ramon ; Strasser, André

In: Cretaceous Research, 2012, p. -

The term “reef” has been frequently misused when applied to fossil coral communities. Our popular but biased view of coral community structure based on the idyllic picture of recent tropical reefs has failed to recognize that, in many fossil examples, alternative states of community structure with no or limited framework may occur. The Aptian colonial scleractinians analysed in the western...

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Internal structure and depositional environment of Late Carboniferous mounds from the San Emiliano Formation, Cármenes Syncline, Cantabrian Mountains, Northern Spain

Samankassou, Elias

In: Sedimentary Geology, 2001, vol. 145(3-4), p. 235

Well-exposed mounds are common in limestone of the Late Carboniferous San Emiliano Formation, Cantabrian Mountains (Northern Spain). They occur as obvious primary topographic features. Careful study of the mound intervals and surrounding strata revealed the internal structures of mounds and the factors controlling their growth. The substrate (2–3 m) of the mounds consists of greyish to reddish,...

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