Late Cretaceous (Santonian-Maastrichtian) integrated coccolith - globotruncanid biostratigraphy of pelagic limestones from the accretionary prism of Manipur, northestern India

Micropaleontology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 69-83

  Chungkham, Prithiraj ^a   Jafar, Syed A ^b  

^a PANJAB UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b BIRBAL SAHNI INSTITUTE OF PALAEOBOTANY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; COCCOLITH; CRETACEOUS; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA;

MANIPUR;

EID: 0031765814     PISSN: 00262803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1486085     Document Type: Article

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