Late Maastrichtian rudist and coral assemblages from the Central Inlier, Jamaica: Towards an event stratigraphy for shallow-water Caribbean limestones

Cretaceous Research

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 499-507

  Mitchell, Simon F ^a   Stemann, Thomas ^a   Blissett, Donovan ^b   Brown, Ian ^a   Ebanks, Winston O'Brian ^a   Gunter, Gavin ^a   Miller, David J ^a   Pearson, Andrew G M ^a   Wilson, Byron ^a   Young, Winston A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biostratigraphy; Corals; Guinea Corn Limestone; Jamaica; Rudist bivalves; Upper Cretaceous

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CORAL; LIMESTONE; MAASTRICHTIAN; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SHALLOW WATER; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; GREATER ANTILLES; JAMAICA; SLIPPERY ROCK RIVER;

ANTHOZOA; BIVALVIA; CHIAPASELLA RADIOLITIFORMIS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 3442881403     PISSN: 01956671     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2004.04.002     Document Type: Article

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