Organic-walled microfossils from the Proterozoic Thule Supergroup, Northwest Greenland

Precambrian Research

Volumn 96, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 1-23

  Samuelsson, Joakim ^a   Dawes, Peter R ^b   Vidal, Gonzalo ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Acritarchs; Biostratigraphy; Greenland; Proterozoic; Thule Supergroup

Indexed keywords

ACRITARCH; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; PROTEROZOIC;

GREENLAND;

EID: 0033563858     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-9268(98)00123-5     Document Type: Article

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