Mid-Pliocene planktic foraminifer assemblage of the North Atlantic Ocean

Micropaleontology

Volumn 53, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 105-126

  Dowsett, Harry J ^a   Robinson, Marci M ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; PLIOCENE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TAXONOMY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 34547770245     PISSN: 00262803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsmicropal.53.1-2.105     Document Type: Article

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