Calcareous nannofossils of the Barremian/Aptian boundary interval in NW Europe: Biostratigraphic and palaeoecologic implications of a high resolution study

Cretaceous Research

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 635-661

  Bischoff, Gregor ^a   Mutterlose, Jörg ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aptian; Barremian; Boreal; Calcareous nannofossils; Early Cretaceous; North Sea; NW Germany; Quantitative stratigraphy; Tethys

Indexed keywords

APTIAN; BARREMIAN; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CALCAREOUS ALGA; CRETACEOUS; NANNOFOSSIL; PALEOECOLOGY;

(NORTHWEST); GERMANY; NORTH SEA;

ALGAE; RUCINOLITHUS;

EID: 0032470042     PISSN: 01956671     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cres.1998.0123     Document Type: Article

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