Magnetostratigraphy of the Vallesian (late Miocene) in the Vallès-Penedès Basin (northeast Spain)

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 142, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 381-396

  Garces M ^a,c,d   Agusti J ^b   Cabrera, L ^a   Pares J M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT CATALÀ DE PALEONTOLOGIA MIQUEL CRUSAFONT   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

^d Paleomagnetic Laboratory Utrecht   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biostratigraphy; Catalonia Spain; Magnetostratigraphy; Vallesian

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; MIOCENE; VALLESIAN;

SPAIN, CATALONIA, VALLES-PENEDES BASIN;

EID: 0030485665     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0012-821x(96)00110-0     Document Type: Article

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