Cyclostratigraphy and the Early Jurassic timescale: Data from the Belemnite Marls, Dorset, southern England

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 111, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1823-1840

  Weedon, G P ^a   Jenkyns, H C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BEDFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CARBONATE; ISOTOPES; ORGANIC CARBON; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

CLIMATIC FACTORS; CYCLOSTRATIGRAPHY; NON-LINEAR RESPONSE; NONLINEAR BEHAVIOR; ORBITAL ECCENTRICITY; ORBITAL PRECESSION; SEDIMENTARY SYSTEMS; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON;

FERTILIZERS;

CYCLOSTRATIGRAPHY; JURASSIC; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; STRATIGRAPHY;

DORSET; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0033494998     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1999)111<1823:CATEJT>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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