Stratigraphic revision of the upper Lower and Middle Cenomanian in the Lower Saxony Basin (northern Germany) with special reference to the Salzgitter area

Cretaceous Research

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 445-460

  Wilmsen, Markus ^a   Niebuhr, Birgit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carbon stable isotopes; Cenomanian; Cretaceous; Lower Middle Cenomanian boundary; Sequence stratigraphy; Stratigraphic events

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CARBON ISOTOPE; CENOMANIAN; CRETACEOUS; INVERTEBRATE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; STABLE ISOTOPE; STRATIGRAPHY;

GERMANY; LOWER SAXONY BASIN; SAXONY;

ACANTHOCERAS JUKESBROWNEI; ACANTHOCERAS RHOTOMAGENSE; AMMONOIDEA; BIVALVIA; CUNNINGTONICERAS INERME; FORAMINIFERA; HIATUS; INOCERAMIDAE; INOCERAMUS; INOCERAMUS CRIPPSI; INOCERAMUS SCHOENDORFI; PRAEACTINOCAMAX; PRAEACTINOCAMAX PRIMUS; PYCNODONTE; ROTALIPORA; ROTALIPORA REICHELI; TURRILITES SCHEUCHZERIANUS;

EID: 0042767759     PISSN: 01956671     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cres.2002.1014     Document Type: Article

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