Re-assessment of the new geological map of Belgium: Earliest Oligocene dinoflagellate cyst-based ages in the Leuven area (sheet 24 Aarschot)

Geologica Belgica

Volumn 10, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 39-46

  Van Simaeys, Stefaan ^a   De Man, Ellen ^b   Vandenberghe, Noël ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Belgium; Biostratigraphy; Dinoflagellate cysts; Oligocene; Tongrian

Indexed keywords

EID: 53149122864     PISSN: 13748505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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