Calcareous nannoplankton biostratigraphy and paleoenvironment of the late Cretaceous-Palaeogene of the Galala Mountains, Eastern Desert, Egypt

CFS Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg

Volumn , Issue 244, 2003, Pages 11-35

  Marzouk, Akmal M ^a   Scheibner, Christian ^b  

^a Tanta University   (Egypt)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biostratigraphy; Calcareous nannoplankton; Egypt; Late Cretaceous; Palaeogene; Paleoenvironment

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CALCAREOUS ALGA; CRETACEOUS; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; NANOFOSSIL; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOGENE; STRATIGRAPHY;

AFRICA; EGYPT; GALALA MOUNTAINS; NORTH AFRICA;

ALGAE; CHIASMOLITHUS SOLITUS; DIPLOGRAMMUS; DISCOASTER; DISTICHUS; HIATUS; LITHRAPHIDITES;

EID: 1642356960     PISSN: 03414116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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