Palynofacies and sea-level changes in the Middle Coniacian - Late Campanian (Late Cretaceous) of the East Coast Basin, New Zealand

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 188, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 101-125

  Schiøler, Poul ^a   Crampton, James S ^b   Laird, Malcolm G ^c  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^b GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Biostratigraphy; Late Cretaceous; New Zealand; Palynofacies; Palynology; Sequence stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CRETACEOUS; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; PALYNOLOGY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

EAST COAST BASIN; NEW ZEALAND;

CLUPEA HARENGUS; DINOPHYCEAE;

EID: 0037027980     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(02)00548-5     Document Type: Article

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