A review of calcareous nannofossil astrobiochronology encompassing the past 25 million years

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 25, Issue 23-24, 2006, Pages 3113-3137

  Raffi, Isabella ^a   Backman, Jan ^b   Fornaciari, Eliana ^c   Pälike, Heiko ^d   Rio, Domenico ^c   Lourens, Lucas ^e   Hilgen, Frits ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^d NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^e UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; CORRELATION METHODS; ESTIMATION; ISOTOPES; PLANTS (BOTANY); STRATIGRAPHY;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; ISOTOPE STRATIGRAPHIES; NANNOFOSSIL ASTROBIOCHRONOLOGY; PLANKTONIC MICROFOSSILS;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

BIOCHRONOLOGY; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CALIBRATION; COCCOLITH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HOLOCENE; MAGNETIC REVERSAL; NANOFOSSIL; NANOPLANKTON; OLIGOCENE;

EID: 33846817124     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2006.07.007     Document Type: Article

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