The Aptian stage

Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belqique, Sciences de la Terre

Volumn 66, Issue SUPPL., 1996, Pages 31-43

  Erba, Elisabetta ^a   Aguado, Roque ^b   Avram, Emil ^b   Baraboschkin, Evgenii J ^b   Bergen, James A ^b   Bralower, Timothy J ^b   Cecca, Fabrizio ^b   Channell, James E T ^b   Coccioni, Rodolfo ^b   Company, Miguel ^b   Delanoy, Gérard ^b   Erbacher, Jochen ^b   Herbert, Timothy D ^b   Hoedemaeker, Philip ^b   Kakabadze, Mikhail ^b   Leereveld, Han ^b   Lini, Andrea ^b   Mikhailova, Irina A ^b   Mutterlose, Jörg ^b   Ogg, James G ^b   Silva, Isabella Premoli ^b   Rawson, Peter F ^b   Von Salis, Katharina ^b   Weissert, Helmut ^b   more..

^a Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Anoxic events; Aptian; Biostratigraphy; Chemostratigraphy; Cyclostratigraphy; GSSP; Lower Cretaceous; Magnetostratigraphy; Stratotypes

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC EVENT; APTIAN; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; CRETACEOUS; CYCLOSTRATIGRAPHY; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; STRATOTYPE;

EID: 0030393998     PISSN: 03746291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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