Use of palynofacies analysis to define Lower Jurassic (Sinemurian to Pliensbachian) genetic stratigraphic sequences in the Wessex Basin, England

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 133, Issue , 1998, Pages 165-185

  Cole, David C ^a   Harding, Ian C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

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JURASSIC; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; STRATIGRAPHY;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0032313807     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.133.01.07     Document Type: Article

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