Walvis Ridge barrier: its influence on palaeoenvironments and source rock generation deduced from ostracod distributions in the early South Atlantic Ocean

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 153, Issue , 1999, Pages 293-302

  Dingle, R V ^a,b  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; HYDROCARBON GENERATION; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; SEDIMENTATION; SOURCE ROCK;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033377806     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.153.01.18     Document Type: Article

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