Essays about: "Triassic"

Showing result 16 - 17 of 17 essays containing the word Triassic.

  1. 16. Depositional and petrographic response of climatic changes in the Triassic of Höllviken-II, southern Sweden

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Geologiska institutionen

    Author : Mikael Jacobsson; [1993]
    Keywords : Tethys; Danish-Polish Trough; Scania; Triassic; Scythian; Ladinian; Anisian; Carnian; desert; monsoonal belt; kaolinite; smectite; calcrete; dolomite; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : A 180 meter long core sequence of the Höllviken-II deep drilling project was investigated and divided into seven subfacies from a sedimentological point of view. Special attention were paid to criteria used for interpretation of the palaeoclimate. READ MORE

  3. 17. Upper Triassic depositional environments at Lunnom, northwest Scania

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Geologiska institutionen

    Author : Erik Svensson; [1989]
    Keywords : geography; geology; Scania; Lunnom; Upper Triassic; mid-Rhaetic; Limbosporites-Rhaetipollis miospore Zone; high energy events; crevasse; non-marine; alluvial plain; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : The mid-Rhaetic sequence at Lunnom, with coal and kaolinitic clays, indicates partly deltaic environments affected by alluvial processes during humid conditions. Of special interest is a thin bed of sandstone with coarse, angular quartz grains. READ MORE