Palaeoenvironmental analysis of Late Cretaceous dinoflagellate cyst assemblages using high-resolution sample correlation from the Western Interior Basin, USA

Marine Micropaleontology

Volumn 48, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 127-148

  Harris, Anthony J ^a   Tocher, Bruce A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   (United Kingdom)

^b STATOIL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Dinoflagellate cysts; Late Cretaceous; North America; Palaeoenvironment

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CRETACEOUS; DINOFLAGELLATE CYST; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOPRODUCTIVITY; STRATIGRAPHY;

UNITED STATES; WESTERN INTERIOR BASIN;

DINOFLAGELLATA; DINOPHYCEAE;

EID: 0037406837     PISSN: 03778398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-8398(03)00002-1     Document Type: Article

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