Volcanic ash layers in the Upper Cretaceous of the Central Apennines and a numerical age for the early Campanian

International Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 384-399

  Bernoulli, Daniel ^a   Schaltegger, Urs ^b   Stern, Willem B ^a   Frey, Martin ^a   Caron, Michèle ^c   Monechi, Simonetta ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Apennines; Bentonite; Biostratigraphy; Geochronology; U Pb age; Zircon

Indexed keywords

ASH; CRETACEOUS; GEOCHRONOLOGY;

APENNINES; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

DELLA; FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 20444479122     PISSN: 14373254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00531-004-0389-4     Document Type: Article

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