Palaeoenvironmental and palaeobiologic changes across the Barremian/Aptian boundary interval in the Tethys Realm, Mexico and Romania

Cretaceous Research

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 529-541

  Barragán, Ricardo ^a   Melinte, Mihaela Carmen ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEO ECOLOGY GEOECOMAR   (Romania)

Author keywords

Barremian Aptian boundary; Mexico; Palaeobiological turnover; Palaeoenvironmental changes; Romania

Indexed keywords

APTIAN; BARREMIAN; CARBONATE PLATFORM; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PALEOBIOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SHALLOW WATER; TRANSGRESSION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; ROMANIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

AMMONOIDEA; DESHAYESITES; FORAMINIFERA; ORBITOLINA; PALORBITOLINA LENTICULARIS;

EID: 33745876274     PISSN: 01956671     EISSN: 1095998X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2005.10.016     Document Type: Article

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