The Cretaceous-Palaeogene boundary succession at Stevns Klint, Denmark: Foraminifers and stable isotope stratigraphy

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 224, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 6-26

  Hart, Malcolm B ^a   Feist, Sean E ^b   Håkansson, Eckart ^c   Heinberg, Claus ^d   Price, Gregory D ^a   Leng, Melanie J ^e   Watkinson, Matthew P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b Network Stratigraphic Consulting Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^e BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cretaceous Palaeogene boundary; Fish Clay; Foraminifers; Stable isotopes; Stevns Klint

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; FORAMINIFERA; SEA LEVEL; SEQUENCE BOUNDARY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; STABLE ISOTOPE;

DENMARK; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; STEVNS KLINT; STORSTROM; WORLD;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 23044471787     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2005.03.029     Document Type: Conference Paper

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