Milankovitch-scale palaeoclimate changes in pale-dark bedding rhythms from the Early Cretaceous (Hauterivian and Barremian) of eastern England and northern Germany

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 154, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 133-160

  Mutterlose, Jörg ^a   Ruffell, Alastair ^b  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bedding rhythms; Calcareous nannofossils; Foraminifera; Geochemistry; Lower Cretaceous; Milankovitch cyclicity; Spectral gamma ray

Indexed keywords

BARREMIAN; CRETACEOUS; HAUTERIVIAN; MILANKOVITCH CYCLE; PALEOCLIMATE;

GERMANY; UNITED KINGDOM;

ALBIA; FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 0032726866     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(99)00107-8     Document Type: Article

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