Genesis of a locality of exceptional fossil preservation: paleoenvironments of Tepexi de Rodgríguez (mid-Cretaceous, Puebla, Mexico)

Cretaceous Research

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 407-431

  Kashiyama, Y ^a   Fastovsky, D E ^b   Rutherford, S ^b   King, J ^b   Montellano, M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Depth series; Exceptional fossil preservation; Lagerst tte; Limestone; Magnetic susceptibility; Mexico; Mid Cretaceous; Milankovitch cycles; Multiple linear regression; Spectral analysis; Transition analysis

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; FACIES ANALYSIS; FOSSIL; LIMESTONE; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MILANKOVITCH CYCLE; PRESERVATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

MEXICO; PUEBLA STATE; TEPEXI DE RODRIGUEZ;

CELLULAR ORGANISMS;

EID: 0141637444     PISSN: 01956671     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0195-6671(03)00052-1     Document Type: Article

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