The role of Spain in the development of the reef Brachiopod faunas during the Carboniferous

• Main Author: Winkler Prins, C.P.
• Other Authors: Renema, W.
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: Springer 2007
• Subjects: Brachiopoda; reef; Spain; Carboniferous; 42.72; 38.22; Arctic; Canada; Hare Fiord; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/499290; http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/document/544887

After a short introduction on the reef development during the Late Palaeozoic, the tectono-stratigraphic history of the Cantabrian Mountains (northern Spain) during the Carboniferous is discussed, with an emphasis on the tectonically active Pennsylvanian (i.e., Late Carboniferous). The reef-bearing...