Late Paleocene event chronology: Unconformities, not diachrony

Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France

Volumn 171, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 367-378

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

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Biostratigraphy; Diachrony; Isotope stratigraphy; Unconformities

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; PALEOCENE; UNCONFORMITY;

EID: 0034124492     PISSN: 00379409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/171.3.367     Document Type: Article

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