Identification and long-range correlation of bentonites in Turonian-Coniacian (Upper Cretaceous) chalks of northwest Europe

Geological Magazine

Volumn 136, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 361-371

  Wray, David S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTONITE; CHALK; CRETACEOUS; EUROPIUM; MARL; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY;

EUROPE; PARIS BASIN;

EID: 0032730019     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756899002836     Document Type: Article

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