Distribution of deep-sea black shales of Cretaceous age in the eastern Equatorial Atlantic from seismic profiling

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 248, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 233-246

  Jones, E John W ^a   Bigg, Grant R ^b   Handoh, Itsuki C ^b   Spathopoulos, Fivos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atlantic Ocean; Black shales; Cretaceous; Seismic profiling

Indexed keywords

BLACK SHALE; CRETACEOUS; DEEP SEA; FRACTURE ZONE; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; OCEANIC CRUST; SEISMIC DATA;

AFRICA; ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH); CAPE VERDE; GAMBIA; MACARONESIA; SIERRA LEONE; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 34147113704     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2006.12.006     Document Type: Article

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