Integrated biostratigraphic and sequence stratigraphic framework for Upper Cretaceous strata of the eastern Gulf Coastal Plain, USA

Cretaceous Research

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 645-669

  Mancini, Ernest A ^a,b   Puckett, T Markham ^a   Tew, Berry H ^a,b  

^a Geological Survey of Alabama   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biostratigraphy; Eastern Gulf Coastal Plain; Intrabasin correlation; Mixed siliciclastic carbonate stratigraphic section; Planktonic foraminiferal zonation; Santonian Maastrichtian; Sequence stratigraphy; Upper Cretaceous

Indexed keywords

FORAMINIFERA;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CRETACEOUS; FORAMINIFERA; MAASTRICHTIAN; SANTONIAN; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

USA, GULF COASTAL PLAIN;

EID: 0030433114     PISSN: 01956671     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cres.1996.0035     Document Type: Article

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