High-frequency sea-level fluctuations recorded on a shallow carbonate platform (Berriasian and Lower Valanginian of Mount Saleve, French Jura)

Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 375-390

  Strasser, André ^a   Hillgärtner, Heiko ^a  

^a Institut de Geologie   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Berriasian; Carbonate platform; Cyclostratigraphy; Jura Mountains; Sea level changes; Sequence stratigraphy; Valanginian

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE PLATFORM; CRETACEOUS; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

FRANCE;

CHARALES; CODONELLOPSIDAE; FORAMINIFERA; HIATUS;

EID: 0345161815     PISSN: 00129402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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