Stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Sardona unit, Glarus Alps: Upper Cretaceous/middle Eocene deep-marine flysch sediments from the Ultrahelvetic realm

Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 721-752

  Lihou, Joanne C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Research and Technology Services   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Eocene; Flysch; Late Cretaceous; Sardona unit; Turbidites; Ultrahelvetic

Indexed keywords

GLOBOTRUNCANA;

CRETACEOUS; FACIES DISTRIBUTION; FLYSCH; PALAEOCENE; STRATIGRAPHY;

SWITZERLAND, ALPS, GLARUS ALPS;

EID: 0030463864     PISSN: 00129402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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