Conodont biostratigraphy of the Java Formation (Upper Devonian) and the Frasnian-Famennian boundary in western New York State

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 321, Issue , 1997, Pages 161-177

  Over, D Jeffrey ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OIL SHALE;

BLACK SHALES; DEVONIANS; EVENT HORIZON; NEW SPECIES; NEW YORK; NEW YORK STATE;

SHALE;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BLACK SHALE; BOUNDARY LAYER; CONODONT; DEVONIAN; DISCONTINUITY LAYER; FRASNIAN-FAMENNIAN BOUNDARY;

EID: 0001749412     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2321-3.161     Document Type: Article

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