Palynological indications of environmental changes during the Late Cretaceous-Eocene on the southern continental margin of Laurasia, Xizang (Tibet)

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 265, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 78-86

  Jianguo, Li ^a   Batten, David J ^b   Yiyong, Zhang ^a  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cretaceous Paleogene; India Laurasia collision; Palaeoenvironment; Palynology; Yarlung Zangbo Suture

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRETACEOUS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EOCENE; OLIGOCENE; PALEOCENE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOLOGY; SANTONIAN; SPORE; STRATIGRAPHY;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 47549095829     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2008.04.017     Document Type: Article

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