Integrated magnetobiochronology of the early/middle Eocene transition at Agost (Spain): Implications for defining the Ypresian/Lutetian boundary stratotype

Lethaia

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 395-415

  Larrasoaña, Juan C ^a   Gonzalvo, Concepción ^b   Molina, Eustoquio ^b   Monechi, Simonetta ^c   Ortiz, Silvia ^b   Tori, Flavia ^c   Tosquella, Josep ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HUELVA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Agost; Betic Cordillera; Biostratigraphy; Calcareous nannofossils; Global Stratotype Section and Point; Larger benthic foraminifera; Magnetostratigraphy; Planktic foraminifera; Small benthic foraminifera; Ypresian Lutetian boundary

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; BIOMARKER; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; LUTETIAN; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; NANOFOSSIL; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; SEQUENCE BOUNDARY; STRATOTYPE;

AGOST; ALICANTE [COMUNIDAD VALENCIA]; BETIC CORDILLERA; COMUNIDAD VALENCIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 56349155760     PISSN: 00241164     EISSN: 15023931     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3931.2008.00096.x     Document Type: Article

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