Foraminiferal isoleucine epimerization determinations from the Nar Valley Clay, Norfolk, UK: Implications for Quaternary correlations in the southern North Sea basin

Geological Magazine

Volumn 136, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 543-560

  Scourse, J D ^a   Austin, W E N ^b,c   Sejrup, H P ^b   Ansari, M H ^a,d  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; HOXNIAN; PALYNOLOGY; QUATERNARY; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION;

NORTH SEA; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0033372020     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756899002812     Document Type: Article

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