Filling the North European Early/Middle Eocene (Ypresian/Lutetian) boundary gap: Insights from the Pyrenean continental to deep-marine record

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 280, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 313-332

  Payros, Aitor ^a   Tosquella, Josep ^b   Bernaola, Gilen ^a   Dinarès Turell, Jaume ^c   Orue Etxebarria, Xabier ^a   Pujalte, Victoriano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HUELVA   (Spain)

^c ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chronostratigraphy; Climate; Eocene; Lutetian; Pyrenees; Sequence stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; EOCENE; GLACIOEUSTACY; HIATUS; LUTETIAN; OUTCROP; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; STRATOTYPE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; YPRESIAN;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NEW JERSEY; NORTH AMERICA; PYRENEES; SOUTHERN OCEAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 69049117989     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.06.018     Document Type: Article

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