Sea-level control on facies architecture in the Cenomanian-Coniacian Apulian margin (Western Tethys): A record of glacio-eustatic fluctuations during the Cretaceous greenhouse?

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 276, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 196-205

  Galeotti, Simone ^a   Rusciadelli, Giovanni ^b   Sprovieri, Mario ^c   Lanci, Luca ^a   Gaudio, Alberto ^a   Pekar, Stephen ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^e Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemostratigraphy; Glacioeustasy; Late Cretaceous; Sea level change; Sequence stratigraphy; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

CENOMANIAN; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; CONIACIAN; CRETACEOUS; FACIES; GLACIOEUSTACY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TETHYS;

ABRUZZI; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

CONIACIAN;

EID: 64949200204     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.03.011     Document Type: Article

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