Early Palaeogene in the South Shillong Plateau, NE India: Local biostratigraphic signals of global tectonic and oceanic changes

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 168, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 187-203

  Jauhri, A K ^a   Agarwal, K K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUCKNOW   (India)

Author keywords

Biostratigraphy; Early Palaeogene; Larger foraminifera; Shillong plateau; Tectonic events

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOGENE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONICS;

INDIA;

EID: 0035308255     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(00)00255-8     Document Type: Article

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