Carbon-isotope stratigraphy of shallow-water limestones and implications for the timing of Late Cretaceous sea-level rise and anoxic events (Cenomanian-Turonian of the peri-Adriatic carbonate platform, Croatia)

Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 163-170

  Davey, Simon D ^a,b   Jenkyns, Hugh C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b EPT IF   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Carbon isotope stratigraphy; Carbonate platform; Cenomanian Turonian boundary; Croatia; Sea level rises

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE PLATFORM; CENOMANIAN; CRETACEOUS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; STRATIGRAPHY; TURONIAN;

CROATIA;

AMMONOIDEA; FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 0033387999     PISSN: 00129402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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