Orbital tuning of Cenomanian marly chalk successions: Towards a Milankovitch time-scale for the Late Cretaceous

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 357, Issue 1757, 1999, Pages 1815-1829

  Gale, A S ^a,b   Young, J R ^b   Shackleton, N J ^c   Crowhurst, S J ^c   Wray, D S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cenomanian; Chalk; Europe; Marly; Milankovitch; Time scale

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346968481     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1999.0402     Document Type: Article

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