An exceptional chronologic, isotopic, and clay mineralogic record of the latest Paleocene thermal maximum, Bass River, NJ, ODP 174AX

Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France

Volumn 170, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 883-897

  Cramer, Benjamin S ^a   Aubry, Marie Pierre ^b   Miller, Kenneth G ^a,c   Olsson, Richard K ^a   Wright, James D ^a,d   Kent, Dennis V ^a,c  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^c Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

13C; 18O; Chron C24r; Clay mineralogy; LPTM; Nannofossil biostratigraphy; Paleocene

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CLAY MINERAL; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; PALEOCENE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033507095     PISSN: 00379409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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