Astronomical calibration of the Jurassic time-scale from cyclostratigraphy in British mudrock formations

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

Volumn 357, Issue 1757, 1999, Pages 1787-1813

  Weedon, Graham P ^a   Jenkyns, Hugh C ^b   Coe, Angela L ^c   Hesselbo, Stephen P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BEDFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cyclostratigraphy; Interval dating; Jurassic, Milankovitch; Palaeoclimatology; Sedimentary cycles; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346968483     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1999.0401     Document Type: Article

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