Calpionellid, nannofossil and calcareous dinocyst bioevents and integrated biochronology of the Tithonian to Valanginian in the Western Balkanides, Bulgaria

Geologica Carpathica

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 151-168

  Lakova, Iskra ^a   Stoykova, Kristalina ^a   Ivanova, Daria ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Berriasian; Bulgaria; Calcareous dinocysts; Calcareous nannofossils; Calpionellids; Integrated biochronology; Tithonian; Valanginian; Western Balkanides

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000522302     PISSN: 13350552     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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