A new middle to late Eocene continental chronostratigraphy from NE Spain

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 216, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 501-514

  Beamud, Elisabet ^a   Garcés, Miguel ^a   Cabrera, Lluís ^a   Anton Munoz, Josep ^a   Almar, Ylènia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biostratigraphy; Ebro basin; Eocene; Fossil mammals; Magnetostratigraphy; Pyrenees

Indexed keywords

BIOCHRONOLOGY; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; EOCENE; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; MAMMAL; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION;

EBRO BASIN; EURASIA; EUROPE; PYRENEES; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 0347542747     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(03)00539-9     Document Type: Article

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