Glacioeustatic changes in the early and middle Eocene (51-42 Ma): Shallow-water stratigraphy from ODP Leg 189 Site 1171 (South Tasman Rise) and deep-sea δ18O records

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 117, Issue 7-8, 2005, Pages 1081-1093

  Pekar, Stephen F ^a,b   Hucks, Audrey ^c   Fuller, Michael ^d   Li, Shawna ^e  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^e Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Australia; Eocene; Eustasy; Foraminifer; Leg 189; Ocean Drilling Program; Sea level; Site 1171; Stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

GLACIOEUSTATIC CHANGES; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; SEQUENCE BOUNDARY; SHALLOW WATER SEDIMENTS;

CALCIUM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRILLING PLATFORMS; LITHOLOGY; OCEAN ENGINEERING; PHOTOMETRY; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; SEDIMENTS;

STRATIGRAPHY;

EOCENE; GLACIOEUSTACY; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; TASMAN SEA; WORLD;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 21944449385     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B25486.1     Document Type: Article

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