Late Albian-Early Cenomanian stratigraphic succession near Estella-Lizarra (Navarra, central northern Spain) and its regional and interregional correlation

Cretaceous Research

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 369-402

  Lopez Horgue M A ^a   Owen, H G ^b   Rodriguez Lazaro J ^a   Orue Etxebarria, ^a   Fernandez Mendiola P A ^a   Garcia Mondejar J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Albian; Ammonites; Biogeography; Biostratigraphy; Cenomanian; Central northern Spain; Cretaceous; Ostracods; Palaeoecology; Plankto nic and benthonic foraminifera; Relative sea level change; Sedimentation; Unconformities

Indexed keywords

ALBIAN; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CENOMANIAN; CRETACEOUS; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

ESTELLA-LIZARRA; NAVARRA; SPAIN;

ALBIA; AMMONOIDEA; FORAMINIFERA; HYSTEROCERAS VARICOSUM; MORTONICERAS; MORTONICERAS INFLATUM; OSTRACODA; STOLICZKAIA;

EID: 0345440019     PISSN: 01956671     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cres.1999.0162     Document Type: Article

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