Pyritized diatoms: A good fossil marker in the Upper Paleocene-Lower Eocene sediments from the Belgian and Dieppe-Hampshire Basins

Geologie en Mijnbouw/Netherlands Journal of Geosciences

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 173-178

  Van Eetvelde, Yoann ^a   Dupuis, Christian ^b   Cornet, Colette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

^b FACULTÉ POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Belgian Basin; Diatoms; Dieppe Hampshire Basin; Paleocene Eocene interval; Pyrite

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; DIATOM; MARKER BED; PALEOCENE-EOCENE BOUNDARY; PYRITE; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 11844263268     PISSN: 00167746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016774600020230     Document Type: Article

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