Magnetostratigraphy, isotopic age calibration and intercontinental correlation of the Red Bird section of the Pierre Shale, Niobrara County, Wyoming, USA

Cretaceous Research

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-27

  Hicks, J F ^a   Obradovich, J D ^b   Tauxe, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Ammonite biostratigraphy; Chronistratigraphy; Cretaceous; Geomagnetic polarity time scale (GPTS); Isotopic age; Magnetostratigraphy; Pierre Shale; Powder River Basin; Western Interior; Wyoming

Indexed keywords

AMMONITE; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CRETACEOUS; MAGNETIC REVERSAL; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY;

UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

AMMONOIDEA; AVES;

EID: 0033082375     PISSN: 01956671     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cres.1998.0133     Document Type: Article

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