Calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy and magnetostratigraphy of the Upper Miocene and Lower Pliocene of the Northern Aegean (Orphanic Gulf-Strimon Basin areas), Greece

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 238, Issue 1-4, 2006, Pages 125-150

  Snel, E ^a   Marunteanu M ^b   Meulenkamp, J E ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF ROMANIA   (Romania)

Author keywords

Biostratigraphy; Calcareous nannofossils; Messinian; Neogene; Northern Greece; Paleomagnetism

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; MESSINIAN; MIOCENE; NEOGENE; PLIOCENE;

AEGEAN SEA; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NORTHERN AEGEAN; SOUTHERN EUROPE; STRUMA BASIN; STRYMONIC GULF;

FORAMINIFERA; PARATETHYS; PONTIA; ZANCLEA;

EID: 33746837293     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2006.03.022     Document Type: Article

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