A southern North Sea Miocene dinoflagellate cyst zonation

Geologie en Mijnbouw/Netherlands Journal of Geosciences

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 267-285

  Munsterman, Dirk K ^a   Brinkhuis, H ^b  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biostratigraphy; Breda Formation; Miocene; Organic walled dinoflagellate cysts; Palynology; Sequence stratigraphy; Southern North Sea; The Netherlands

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; DINOFLAGELLATE CYST; MIOCENE; PALYNOLOGY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BENELUX; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; NORTH SEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 12344285295     PISSN: 00167746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016774600020369     Document Type: Article

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