A proposal for the Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the base of the Pliensbachian Stage (Lower Jurassic)

Ecologae Geologicae Helvetiae

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 275-297

  Meister, Christian ^a   Blau, Joachim ^b   Dommergues, Jean Louis ^c   Feist Burkhardt, Susanne ^d   Hart, Malcolm ^e   Hesselbo, Stephen P ^f   Hylton, Mark ^e   Page, Kevin ^e   Price, Greg ^e  

^a Department de Geol et de Paleontol ^*  (Switzerland)

^b Inst f Geowissenschaften und Litho   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^d DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biostratigraphy; GSSP; Isotope stratigraphy; Lower Jurassic; Pliensbachian; Robin Hood's bay (North Yorkshire); Sequence stratigraphy; Stratotype; UK; Wine Haven

Indexed keywords

AMMONITE; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; JURASSIC; REFERENCE WORK AND SYSTEM; SEQUENCE BOUNDARY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; STRATOTYPE;

UNITED KINGDOM;

AMMONOIDEA; BELEMNOIDEA; OSTRACODA;

EID: 0141925272     PISSN: 00129402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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