Origin of a widespread marine bonebed deposited during the middle Miocene Climatic Optimum

Geology

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 519-522

  Pyenson, Nicholas D ^a,c   Irmis, Randall B ^a,d   Lipps, Jere H ^a   Barnes, Lawrence G ^b   Mitchell Jr , Edward D ^b   McLeod, Samuel A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIFORNIA; MARINE MAMMALS; MEAN DENSITY; MIDDLE MIOCENE; NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN; RED TIDE; TIME AVERAGING; TIME INTERVAL;

GEOCHRONOLOGY; MAMMALS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CLASTIC SEDIMENT; DEPOSITION; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MIOCENE; PALEOECOLOGY; SEDIMENTATION RATE; TRANSGRESSION-REGRESSION CYCLE;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); SAN JOAQUIN BASIN; UNITED STATES;

CHONDRICHTHYES; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 69649100104     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G25509A.1     Document Type: Article

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