A record of long- and short-term environmental and climatic change during OAE3: La Luna Formation, Late Cretaceous (Santonian-early Campanian), Venezuela

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 170, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 85-105

  Rey, O ^a,b   Simo, J A ^b,c   Lorente, M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^c UPC   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Climate variability; Cyclicity; La Luna Formation; Maracaibo basin; Ocean anoxic event; Orbital forcing; Santonian

Indexed keywords

ANOXIA; CRETACEOUS; CYCLIC SEDIMENTATION; ORBITAL FORCING; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT;

SOUTH AMERICA; VENEZUELA;

EID: 4143138802     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2004.06.006     Document Type: Article

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