Miocene calibration for calcareous nannofossils from low-latitude Ocean Drilling Program sites and the Jamaican conundrum

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 109, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1073-1079

  Schneider, David A ^a   Backman, Jan ^b   Chaisson, William P ^c   Raffi, Isabella ^d  

^a Scientific American   (United States)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CALIBRATION; INFILL DRILLING; LITHOLOGY; MAGNETIC POLARITY; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; TROPICS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CALCAREOUS NANNOFOSSILS; CYCLIC CHANGES; EASTERN PACIFIC; LITHO-STRATIGRAPHIC; LOW LATITUDES; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAMS; WESTERN ATLANTIC;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; LITHOLOGY; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MIOCENE; NANOFOSSIL; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; BIOSTRATIGRAPHIC CALIBRATION; CALCAREOUS NANNOFOSSIL; CYCLICITY; LOW LATITUDE;

AMAZON SHELF; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CEARA RISE; JAMAICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; (EAST); (WEST); ATLANTIC; PACIFIC;

EID: 0031413131     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1997)109<1073:MCFCNF>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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