Stratigraphy and sedimentation rates of Upper Cretaceous deep-water systems of the Rhenodanubian Group (Eastern Alps, Germany)

Cretaceous Research

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 405-416

  Egger, Hans ^a   Schwerd, Klaus ^b  

^a ZAMG Zentralanstalt fuer Meteorologie und Geodynamik   (Austria)

^b Bavarian Water Management Agency   (Germany)

Author keywords

Calcareous nannoplankton; North western Tethys; Oceanic red beds; Stratigraphy; Turbidites; Upper Cretaceous

Indexed keywords

ABYSSAL PLAIN; BARREMIAN; CAMPANIAN; CRETACEOUS; DEEP WATER; MUDSTONE; NANOPLANKTON; PALEOCURRENT; RED BED; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SILICICLASTIC DEPOSIT; SLOPE ANGLE; STRATIGRAPHY; TURBIDITE;

ALPS; BAVARIA; BAVARIAN ALPS; CENTRAL ALPS; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; ISAR RIVER;

CONIACIAN;

EID: 44649135170     PISSN: 01956671     EISSN: 1095998X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2007.03.002     Document Type: Article

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