Toward a composite orbital chronology for the Late Cretaceous and Early Palaeocene GPTS

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

Volumn 357, Issue 1757, 1999, Pages 1891-1905

  Herbert, Timothy D ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbonate cycles; Cretaceous; Eccentricity cycles; Magnetostratigraphy; Palaeocene; Precessional cycles

Indexed keywords

EID: 0348229350     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1999.0406     Document Type: Article

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