Abstract: A study of Silurian acid-resistant microfossils from the Ghadames Basin in Tripolitania (Libya) using palynological techniques revealed that the following may be used as palaeoenvironmental indicators: spores, acritarchs, chitinozoa, tasmanitids, scolecodonts, plant tissue, eurypterid cuticle, and graptolite siculae. The palynofacies were defined by quantitative and qualitative diversification of these assemblages. Sedimentological features were used to confirm these proposed facies.Six distinct types of palynofacies were identified and related to models of distance from the shoreline. It is tentatively suggested that they may relate to lagoonal, intermediate and open marine environments.
Publication Year: 1971
Publication Date: 1971-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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