Palaeoenvironments and palaeobiogeography of the Late Cretaceous Casamance transect (Senegal, NW Africa): Distribution patterns of benthic foraminifera, organic carbon and terrigenous flux

Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie - Abhandlungen

Volumn 212, Issue 1-3, 1999, Pages 335-377

  Holbourn, A ^a   Kuhnt, W ^a   El Albani, A ^a   Ly, A ^b   Gomez, R ^b   Herbin, J P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CHEIKH ANTA DIOP   (Senegal)

^c IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; CRETACEOUS; ORGANIC CARBON; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TERRIGENOUS DEPOSIT;

SENEGAL;

CONIACIAN; FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 0004895395     PISSN: 00777749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/njgpa/212/1999/335     Document Type: Article

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