Biostratigraphic and isotopic record of the Cenomanian-Turonian deposits in the Ohaba-Ponor section (SW Haţeg, Romania)

Cretaceous Research

Volumn 29, Issue 5-6, 2008, Pages 1024-1034

  Melinte Dobrinescu, Mihaela Carmen ^a   Bojar, Ana Voica ^b  

^a National Institute of Marine Geology and Geoecology   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Middle Cenomanian early Turonian; Nannofloras; Southern Carpathians; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CENOMANIAN-TURONIAN BOUNDARY; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; NANOFOSSIL; PALEOENVIRONMENT; STABLE ISOTOPE;

CARPATHIANS; EURASIA; EUROPE; HATEG BASIN; ROMANIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ACANTHOCERAS (AMMONITE); AMMONOIDEA; BISCUTUM CONSTANS; WATZNAUERIA BARNESAE; ZEUGRHABDOTUS ERECTUS;

EID: 53549126980     PISSN: 01956671     EISSN: 1095998X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2008.05.018     Document Type: Article

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