Orbital signatures in a Late Miocene dinoflagellate record from Crete (Greece)

Marine Micropaleontology

Volumn 33, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 273-295

  Santarelli, A ^a,c   Brinkhuis, H ^a   Hilgen, F J ^b   Lourens, L J ^b   Versteegh, G J M ^d   Visscher, H ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Inst Earth Sci Budapestlaan 4 U   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

^d ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dinoflagellate cysts; Late Miocene; Mediterranean; Milankovitch theory; Sapropels

Indexed keywords

DINOFLAGELLATE; MIOCENE; PALAEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOLOGY;

CRETE;

EID: 0032055263     PISSN: 03778398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-8398(97)00042-X     Document Type: Article

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