Late Cretaceous spores, pollen and dinoflagellates from two boreholes (Nuqra-1 and 3) in the Aswan area, southeast Egypt

Revue de Paleobiologie

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 593-613

  Mahmoud, Magdy S ^a   Schrank, Eckart ^b  

^a Assiut University   (Egypt)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dinoflagellates; Late Cretaceous; Palaeoecology; Palaeophytogeography; Palynological age; Pollen and spores; Southeast Egypt

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ALGA; ANGIOSPERM; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BOREHOLE; CRETACEOUS; DINOFLAGELLATE; GYMNOSPERM; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; PALEOECOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY; PHYTOGEOGRAPHY; PTERIDOPHYTE; SEDIMENTATION; SPORE;

AFRICA; ASWAN [EGYPT]; EGYPT; NORTH AFRICA;

ALGAE; ANDALUSIELLA; ARECACEAE; ARIADNAESPORITES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DINOPHYCEAE; FILICOPHYTA; FUNGI; GYMNOSPERMAE; HYDROPTERIDALES; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; NORMAPOLLES; ODONTOCHITINA OPERCULATA; PROTEACIDITES; SPINIZONOCOLPITES; TRICHODINIUM CASTANEA;

EID: 40549110620     PISSN: 02536730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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