The Lower-Middle Cambrian boundary in the Mediterranean subprovince

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 423, Issue , 2007, Pages 359-373

  Gózalo, Rodolfo ^a,d   Liñán, Eladio ^b   Álvarez, María Eugenia Diesp ^b   Vintaned, José Antonio Gámezp ^b   Mayoral, Eduardo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HUELVA   (Spain)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Biochronology; Cambrian GSSP; Global correlation; Stratigraphy; Trilobites

Indexed keywords

BIOCHRONOLOGY; CAMBRIANS; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; CORRELATION CHART; CORRELATION TOOLS; GLOBAL CORRELATION; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; TRILOBITES;

STRATIGRAPHY;

BIOCHRONOLOGY; CAMBRIAN; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; DATUM; PLATE BOUNDARY; STRATIGRAPHY; TRILOBITE;

IBERIAN PENINSULA; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; SPAIN;

ACADOPARADOXIDES; LEONIA; ORYCTOCEPHALIDAE; OVATORYCTOCARA GRANULATA; PARADOXIDES; TRILOBITOMORPHA;

EID: 67449086686     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2007.2423(17)     Document Type: Conference Paper

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