Magneto-biostratigraphy of the Middle to Upper Triassic transition, central Spitsbergen, arctic Norway

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 164, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 581-597

  Hounslow, Mark W ^a   Hu, Mengyu ^a   Mørk, Atle ^b   Vigran, Jorunn Os ^b   Weitschat, Wolfgang ^c   Orchard, Michael J ^d  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b SINTEF PETROLEUM RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^d GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALEOMAGNETISM; PALYNOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; TRIASSIC;

ARCTIC; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 34248171877     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492005-184     Document Type: Article

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