Latest Jurassic - Earliest Cretaceous radiolarian fauna from the Xialu chert in the Yarlung Zangbo suture zone, southern Tibet: Comparison with coeval western Pacific radiolarian faunas and paleoceanographic implications

Island Arc

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 338-345

  Matsuoka, Atsushi ^a   Yang, Qun ^b   Takei, Masahiko ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Earliest Cretaceous; Latest Jurassic; Paleoceanography; Radiolaria; Xialu chert

Indexed keywords

CHERT; JURASSIC-CRETACEOUS BOUNDARY; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; RADIOLARIA; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TAXONOMY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; INDUS-YARLUNG SUTURE ZONE; XIZANG;

PSEUDODICTYOMITRA; STICHOCAPSA;

EID: 33845462472     PISSN: 10384871     EISSN: 14401738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1738.2005.00491.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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