Essays about: "Slite Beds"

Found 3 essays containing the words Slite Beds.

  1. 1. Five new cephalopod species from the Silurian of Gotland

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Geologiska institutionen

    Author : Mattias Jacobson; [1999]
    Keywords : Cephalopoda; Oncocerida; Silurian; Gotland; Sweden; Patagiumoceras urnulum; Patagiumoceras crebristriatum; Pentameroceras nondum; Pentameroceras tibia; Simonssonoceras triangulum; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : Silurian oncocerid cephalopods, collected by Gustaf Lindström’s and co-workers at the end of the 19th century on the island of Gotland are described. The material is from the Samsugns quarries and found within large thanatocoenoses in the Wenlock Slite Beds. READ MORE

  3. 2. High-resolution methods for study of carbonate rock : a tool for correlating the sedimentary record

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Geologiska institutionen

    Author : Martin Stockfors; [1998]
    Keywords : method study; carbonate content; organic carbon content; magnetic susceptibility; grey scale image analysis; Slite Beds; Gotland; Sweden; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : Geophysical and geochemical methods such as investigation of calcium carbonate content, organic carbon content, magnetic susceptibility and grey scale image analysis may be utilised as correlation tools of sedimentary carbonate rocks. Low carbonate content indicates high terrestrial input into a basin and is associated with clay horizons containing high amounts of organic carbon and also high magnetic susceptibility. READ MORE

  4. 3. The conodont genus Ctenognathodus in the Silurian of Gotland, Sweden

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Geologiska institutionen

    Author : Caroline Strömberg; [1997]
    Keywords : Conodonta; Prioniodinida; Ctenognathodus; Ligonodina confluens; functional morphology; ontogeny; palaeoecology; phylogeny; Högklint Beds; Tofta Beds; Slite Beds; Klinteberg Beds; Hemse Beds; Hamra Beds; Sundre Beds; Wenlock; Ludlow; Silurian; Gotland; Sweden; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : Seven taxa of the conodont genus Ctenognathodus (Fay, 1959) sensu Viira, 1982b in the Silurian of Gotland have been described and their occurrence mapped geographically, stratigraphically and related to facies. In addition to C. murchisoni (Pander, 1856) three new species were found; C. n. READ MORE