Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Middle Eocene Trieste-Pazin basin (Croatia) from benthic foraminiferal assemblages

Micropaleontology

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 285-310

  Živkovic, Sanja ^a   Glumac, Bosiljka ^b  

^a Energy Institute Hrvoje Pozar   (Croatia)

^b SMITH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; BIOFACIES; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; EOCENE; EUTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; MESOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; RECONSTRUCTION; TAXONOMY;

CROATIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRIULI-VENEZIA GIULIA; ITALY; PAZIN BASIN; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TRIESTE [FRIULI-VENEZIA GIULIA];

ACARININA; FORAMINIFERA; GLOBIGERINATHEKA;

EID: 38749130869     PISSN: 00262803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsmicropal.53.4.285     Document Type: Article

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