The calcareous nannofossil turnover across the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum event (PETM) in the southwestern Nile Valley, Egypt

Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie - Abhandlungen

Volumn 234, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 291-309

  Youssef, Mohamed ^a   Mutterlose, Jörg ^b  

^a SOUTH VALLEY UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; CALCAREOUS ALGA; FOSSIL; PALEOCENE-EOCENE BOUNDARY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; TURNOVER;

NILE VALLEY;

APOIDEA; COCCOLITHUS PELAGICUS; DISCOASTER; FORAMINIFERA; PONTOSPHAERA; SIGANUS; SPHENOLITHUS;

EID: 11344265247     PISSN: 00777749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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