Organic-walled dinoflagellate cyst stratigraphy in an expanded Oligocene-Miocene boundary section in the eastern North Sea Basin (Frida-1 Well, Denmark) and correlation from basinal to marginal areas

Journal of Micropalaeontology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-17

  Dybkjær, Karen ^a   Rasmussen, Erik Skovbjerg ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Mi 1 glaciation event; North Sea; Oligocene Miocene; Organic walled dinoflagellate cysts; Sequence stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

DINOFLAGELLATE CYST; GLACIATION; MIOCENE; OLIGOCENE; SEISMIC DATA; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; WELL LOGGING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

CANTHARELLUS; DEFLANDREA; DINOPHYCEAE; HOMOTRYBLIUM;

EID: 34249940681     PISSN: 0262821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/jm.26.1.1     Document Type: Article

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