Calcareous plankton biostratigraphy and40Ar/39Ar dating of miocene volcaniclastic layers from Monferrato (NW Italy)

Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 137-144

  D'Atri, Anna ^a,b   Dela Pierre, Francesco ^a,b   Ruffini, Raffaella ^b,c   Novaretti, Anna ^a   Cosca, Michael A ^d   Hunziker, Johannes C ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c Dipto Sci Mineralogiche P   (Italy)

^d Inst de Minéralogie BSFH 2   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biostratigraphy; Early middle miocene; Geochronology; Volcaniclastic layers

Indexed keywords

ARGON-ARGON DATING; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; MIOCENE; NANNOFOSSIL; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; VOLCANICLASTIC DEPOSIT;

ITALY;

FORAMINIFERA; PRAEORBULINA; SICANA; SPHENOLITHUS;

EID: 0034810867     PISSN: 00129402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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