Obliquity-dominated glacio-eustatic sea level change in the early Oligocene: Evidence from the shallow marine siliciclastic Rupelian stratotype (Boom Formation, Belgium)

Terra Nova

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 65-73

  Abels, Hemmo A ^a   Van Simaeys, Stefaan ^b   Hilgen, Frits J ^a   De Man, Ellen ^c   Vandenberghe, Noël ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOOM CLAY; GLACIOEUSTACY; OLIGOCENE; RUPELIAN; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SHALLOW WATER; SILICICLASTIC DEPOSIT; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; STRATOTYPE;

BELGIUM; BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33947643679     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: 13653121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2006.00716.x     Document Type: Article

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