The Early Pleistocene Praetiglian and Ludhamian pollen stages in the North Sea Basin and their relationship to the marine isotope record

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 307-310

  Meijer, T ^a   Cleveringa, P ^b   Munsterman, D K ^b   Verreussel, R M C H ^b  

^a Department of Cainozoic Mollusca ^*  (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Early Pleistocene; Impagidinium multiplexum; Land sea correlation; Ludhamian; Megayoldia thraciaeformis; Praetiglian

Indexed keywords

MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PALYNOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

BIVALVIA; DINOPHYCEAE; IMPAGIDINIUM; MEGAYOLDIA THRACIAEFORMIS; MOLLUSCA;

EID: 33645313782     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: 10991417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.956     Document Type: Article

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