Mid-Cretaceous oceanic red beds in the Umbria-Marche Basin, central Italy: Constraints on paleoceanography and paleoclimate

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 233, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 163-186

  Hu, Xiumian ^a   Jansa, Luba ^b   Sarti, Massimo ^c  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Central Italy; Mid Cretaceous; Oceanic red beds; Paleoceanography; Paleoclimate

Indexed keywords

DISSOLVED OXYGEN; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEDIMENTATION RATE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; UMBRIA-MARCHE BASIN;

GLOBIGERINELLOIDES; PRIMULA; PRIMULACEAE; TICINELLA BEJAOUAENSIS;

EID: 33645917365     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2005.10.003     Document Type: Article

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