Paleoceanographic changes at the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary in the Western Tethys, northeastern Mexico

Cretaceous Research

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 671-689

  Adatte, Thierry ^a   Stinnesbeck, Wolfgang ^b   Remane, Jürgen ^a   Hubberten, Hans ^c  

^a CH 2000   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE NUEVO LEÓN   (Mexico)

^c ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ammonites; Anoxia; Berriasian; Calpionellids; Clay minerals; Correlation; Mexico; Sea level rise; Source rocks; Stable isotopes; Tethys; Tithonian

Indexed keywords

AMMONOIDEA; CODONELLOPSIDAE; TITHONIA;

JURASSIC/CRETACEOUS BOUNDARY; PALAEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALAEOGEOGRAPHY; STRATIGRAPHY; TETHYS;

MEXICO;

EID: 0030438076     PISSN: 01956671     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cres.1996.0036     Document Type: Article

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