Planktic foraminiferal Globotruncanita calcarata Total Range Zone: Its global significance and importance to chronostratigraphic correlation in the Gulf Coastal Plain, USA

Journal of Foraminiferal Research

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 124-134

  Puckett, T Markham ^a   Mancini, Ernest A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

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