Age calibration of dinoflagellate cyst and acritarch events in the Pliocene-Pleistocene of the eastern North Atlantic (DSDP Hole 610A)

Stratigraphy

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 137-161

  De Schepper, Stijn ^a,c   Head, Martin J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACRITARCH; AGE DETERMINATION; BIOMARKER; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; DINOFLAGELLATE CYST; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; MODELING; NANOFOSSIL; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

ACRITARCHA; BATIACASPHAERA; CYMATIOSPHAERA; DINOPHYCEAE; IMPAGIDINIUM; LEIOSPHAERIDIA; RETICULOFENESTRA PSEUDOUMBILICUS;

EID: 47949130770     PISSN: 00262803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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