Palaeoenvironmental interpretation of dinosaur- and mammal-bearing continental Maastrichtian deposits, Haţeg basin, Romania

Geological Quarterly

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 205-222

  Bojar, Ana Voica ^a   Grigorescu, Dan ^b   Ottner, Franz ^c   Csiki, Zoltan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^c Institute of Applied Geology   (Austria)

Author keywords

Clay mineralogy; Dinosaur; Ha eg basin; Maastrichtian; Palaeosols; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; MAASTRICHTIAN; PALEOENVIRONMENT;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; HATEG BASIN; ROMANIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

ARIDA; DINOSAURIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 22744456133     PISSN: 16417291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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