Upper Cretaceous palaeoenvironments and benthonic foraminiferal assemblages of potential source rocks from the western African margin, Central Atlantic

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 153, Issue , 1999, Pages 195-222

  Holbourn, Ann ^a   Kuhnt, Wolfgang ^b   El Albani, Abderrazzak ^b   Pletsch, Thomas ^b   Luderer, Florian ^b   Wagner, Thomas ^c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; CRETACEOUS; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SOURCE ROCK;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033396659     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.153.01.13     Document Type: Article

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