Integrated calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy and magnetostratigraphy from the uppermost marine Eocene deposits of the southeastern Pyrenean foreland basin: Evidences for marine Priabonian deposition

Geologica Acta

Volumn 7, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 281-296

  Cascella, Antonio ^a   Dinarès Turell, Jaume ^b  

^a SEZIONE DI PISA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biostratigraphy; Calcareous Nannofossils; Late Eocene; Magnetostratigraphy; Pyrenean basin

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; EOCENE; FORELAND BASIN; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; NANOFOSSIL; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; PYRENEES;

EID: 62249140902     PISSN: 16956133     EISSN: 16965728     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1344/105.000000282     Document Type: Article

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