Paleoceanography of the western central Paratethys during early oligocene nannoplankton zone NP23 in the Austrian Molasse Basin

Geologica Carpathica

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 311-323

  Schulz, Hans Martin ^a   Bechtel, Achim ^b   Rainer, Thomas ^b   Sachsenhofer, Rienhard F ^b   Struck, Ulrich ^c  

^a CLAUSTHAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEOBEN   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biomarker; C N isotopes; Dynow Marlstone; Kiscellian; Organic carbon; Paleoceanography; Paratethys

Indexed keywords

NANOPLANKTON; OLIGOCENE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; TETHYS;

AUSTRIA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; MOLASSE BASIN;

EID: 4444298306     PISSN: 13350552     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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