Calcareous nannofossils and planktic foraminifers in the upper Aptian of the Sergipe Basin, northeastern Brazil: Palaeoecological inferences

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 142, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 175-184

  Scarparo Cunha, Armando A ^a   Koutsoukos, Eduardo A M ^a  

^a Physical Organic Chemistry Group   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Aptian; Foramini fers; Nannofossils; Palaeoceanography; Palaeoecology; South Atlantic

Indexed keywords

APTIAN; CRETACEOUS; FORAMINIFERA; NANNOFOSSIL; PALEOECOLOGY;

BRAZIL; SERGIPE BASIN;

NANNOCONUS; STRADNERIA; TRANOLITHUS; WATZNAUERIA BARNESAE;

EID: 0032532832     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(98)00065-0     Document Type: Article

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