The onset of major Northern Hemisphere glaciations and their impact on dinoflagellate cysts and acritarchs from the Singa section, Calabria (southern Italy) and DSDP Holes 607/607A (North Atlantic)

Marine Micropaleontology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 319-343

  Versteegh, Gerard J M ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

dinoflagellate; extinction; ice ages; Mediterranean; Milankovitch cycles; North Atlantic; Pliocene; stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

ACRITARCH; ACRITARCHS; DINOFLAGELLATE CYST; DINOFLAGELLATE CYSTS; GLACIATION; MILANKOVITCH CYCLE; PALAEOCLIMATE; PLIOCENE;

ATLANTIC, (NORTH); ITALY, CALABRIA, SINGA;

EID: 0030620858     PISSN: 03778398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-8398(96)00052-7     Document Type: Article

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