Contributions to the palaeoenvironmental knowledge of the Escucha Formation in the Lower Cretaceous Oliete Sub-basin, Teruel, Spain

Comptes Rendus - Palevol

Volumn 6, Issue 6-7, 2007, Pages 469-481

  Peyrot, Daniel ^a,b   Rodríguez López, Juan Pedro ^a   Lassaletta, Luis ^c   Meléndez, Nieves ^a   Barrón, Eduardo ^d  

^a Facultad de Ciencias Geológicas   (Spain)

^b UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^c UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^d Inst Geol Minero Espana   (Spain)

Author keywords

Oliete Sub basin; Palaeoecology; Palynology; Spain; Upper Aptian lower Albian

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; DATA REDUCTION; FORESTRY; WETLANDS;

ALBIAN; APTIAN; CONIFEROUS FOREST; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PALEOECOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; TAXONOMY; WETLAND;

ARAGON; EURASIA; EUROPE; OLIETE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; TERUEL [ARAGON];

ACRITARCHA; ALGAE; BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; DINOPHYCEAE; GYMNOSPERMAE; LYCOPODIOPHYTA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; PRASINOPHYCEAE; PTERIDOPHYTA;

EID: 36749059511     PISSN: 16310683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crpv.2007.09.014     Document Type: Article

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