Cyclostratigraphy and climatic eustasy. Example of the Rupelian stratotype

Comptes Rendus de l'Academie de Sciences - Serie IIa: Sciences de la Terre et des Planetes

Volumn 325, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 305-315

  Vandenberghe, Noël ^a   Laenen, Ben ^b   Van Echelpoel, Erna ^c   Lagrou, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c TRACTEBEL ENGINEERING   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Clay mineralogy; Cyclicity; Glacio eustatic sequences; Orbital signals; Rupelian stratigraphy; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

CLAY MINERALOGY; CYCLICITY; CYCLOSTRATIGRAPHY; EUSTASY; OLIGOCENE; PALAEOCLIMATE; RUPELIAN;

EID: 0031436171     PISSN: 12518050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1251-8050(97)81377-8     Document Type: Review

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