Sedimentary, biological and isotopic record of early Aptian paleoclimatic event in the Pieniny Klippen Belt, Slovak Western Carpathians

Geologica Carpathica

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 169-191

  Michalík, Jozef ^a   Reháková, Daniela ^a   Lintnerová, Otília ^b   Boorová, Daniela ^c   Halásová, Eva ^b   Kotulová, Júlia ^a   Soták, Ján ^a   Peterčáková, Mária ^a   Hladíková, Jana ^d   Skupien, Petr ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^b Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

^c Geological Survey of Slovak Republic   (Slovakia)

^d CZECH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (Czech Republic)

^e VSB TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF OSTRAVA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Anoxic sediments; Bioevents; C isotopes; Lithology; Lower Cretaceous; Slovakia; Stratigraphy; Western Carpathians

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007642925     PISSN: 13350552     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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