Paleoenvironmental changes across the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary at Flaxbourne River and Woodside Creek, eastern Marlborough, New Zealand

New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 177-197

  Hollis, C J ^a   Strong, C P ^a   Rodgers, K A ^b   Rogers, K M ^a  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^b AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

Barium; Biostratigraphy; Carbon isotopes; Diatoms; Foraminifera; Geochemistry; K T boundary; Mead Hill Formation; Paleocene; Paleoecology; Radiolarians; Silica

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; FORAMINIFERA; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; RADIOLARIA;

MARLBOROUGH; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND;

EID: 0042377374     PISSN: 00288306     EISSN: 11758791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00288306.2003.9515003     Document Type: Article

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