Magnetostratigraphic calibration of the Oligocence to Middle Miocene (30-15 Ma) mammal biozones and depositional sequences of the Swiss Molasse Basin

Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 753-788

  Schlunegger, Fritz ^a   Burbank, Douglas W ^b   Matter, Albert ^a   Engesser, Burkhart ^c   Mödden, Clemens ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NATURHISTORISCHES MUSEUM BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biostratigraphy; Foreland basins; Magnetostratigraphy; Mammalia; Molasse basin

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIA;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; MAMMAL; MIOCENE; OLIGOCENE;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0030472957     PISSN: 00129402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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