- épicontinental
épicontinental
adj.
陆缘的
- Interglacials are identified on land or in shallow epicontinental seas by their paleontology.
- Species limited to a single epicontinental sea on a given landmass were severely affected.
- Shallow shelf seas and epicontinental seas existed in which evaporites and limestones were deposited.
- A very warm epicontinental sea chalky sediments were laid down right up to the Maastrichtian.
- The sediments are mainly epicontinental deposits of lacustrine character, as well as limestones, marls and dolomites with marine or littoral faunas.
- Ancient sand dunes of a broad desert met with the salty waters of a shallow, epicontinental sea, producing examples of cross-stratification.
- The epicontinental, psammitic sediments of the Neoproterozoic and the Lower Paleozoic are a very thick detrital ( mudstone-sandstone ) succession essentially devoid of fossils.
- A global drop in sea level at the end of the Devonian reversed early in the Carboniferous; this created the widespread epicontinental seas and carbonate deposition of the Mississippian.
- This process seems to have been triggered by the breaching of the Rio Grande Rise-Walvis Ridge complex and the disappearance of epicontinental seaways such as the Tethys Ocean.
- Its habitat was apparently shallow or epicontinental seas, as evidenced by its associated fauna, the cartilaginous fish " Pseudocorax ", " Turritella vertibroides ".