Global standard names for the Lowermost Cambrian Series and Stage

Episodes

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 287-289

  Landing, Ed ^a   Peng, Shanchi ^b   Babcock, Loren E ^c   Geyer, Gerd ^d   Moczydlowska Vidal, Malgorzata ^e  

^a NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM   (United States)

^b NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^e UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMBRIAN; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; STANDARD (REFERENCE);

CANADA; NEWFOUNDLAND; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR; NORTH AMERICA;

PEDUM; TRICHOPHYCUS;

EID: 38549156183     PISSN: 07053797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18814/epiiugs/2007/v30i4/004     Document Type: Article

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