A carbon and oxygen isotopic analysis of molluscan faunas from the Callovian-Oxfordian boundary at Redcliff Point, Weymouth, Dorset: Implications for belemnite behaviour

Proceedings of the Geologists' Association

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 153-160

  Price, Gregory D ^a   Page, Kevin N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Belemnites; Callovian; Carbon and oxygen isotope; Dorset; Oxfordian

Indexed keywords

AMMONITE; BELEMNITE; CALLOVIAN; CARBON ISOTOPE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FOSSIL RECORD; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MOLLUSC; OXFORDIAN; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PETROGRAPHY;

DORSET [ENGLAND]; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; WEYMOUTH;

AMMONOIDEA; BELEMNOIDEA; GRYPHAEA; HIBOLITHES;

EID: 48249153447     PISSN: 00167878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7878(08)80315-X     Document Type: Article

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