Intercalibration of Boreal and Tethyan time scales: The magnetobiostratigraphy of the Middle Triassic and the latest Early Triassic from Spitsbergen, Arctic Norway

Polar Research

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 469-490

  Hounslow, Mark W ^a   Hu, Mengyu ^a   Mørk, Atle ^b,e   Weitschat, Wolfgang ^c   Vigran, Jorunn Os ^b   Karloukovski, Vassil ^a   Orchard, Michael J ^d  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b SINTEF PETROLEUM RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^d GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^e NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Ammonoid biostratigraphy; Boreal; Conodonts; Magnetostratigraphy; Middle Triassic

Indexed keywords

AMMONITE; ANISIAN; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BOREAL; CALIBRATION; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; CONODONT; LADINIAN; MAGNETIZATION; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALYNOMORPH; SEDIMENTATION RATE; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION;

ARCTIC; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

AMMONOIDEA; ANISIA;

EID: 54849411890     PISSN: 08000395     EISSN: 17518369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-8369.2008.00074.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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