Eocene-Oligocene greenhouse to icehouse transition on a subtropical clastic shelf: The Jackson-Vicksburg groups of the eastern gulf coastal plain of the United States

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 452, Issue , 2009, Pages 261-277

  Fluegeman, Richard H ^a   Grigsby, Jeffry D ^a   Hurley, John V ^b  

^a BALL STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bentonites; Foraminifera; Mississippi; Stable isotopes; Yazoo clay

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GREENHOUSES; ISOTOPES; SEA LEVEL; TROPICS; WAREHOUSES;

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; CALCAREOUS NANNOFOSSILS; EOCENE-OLIGOCENE BOUNDARY; FORAMINIFERA; LITHO-STRATIGRAPHIC; MISSISSIPPI; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; STABLE ISOTOPES;

BENTONITE;

ALLOSTRATIGRAPHY; BENTONITE; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; EOCENE-OLIGOCENE BOUNDARY; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; NANOFOSSIL; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; SEQUENCE BOUNDARY; STABLE ISOTOPE; STRATOTYPE;

ALABAMA; AUSTRALIA; MISSISSIPPI; RED BLUFF; UNITED STATES; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

FORAMINIFERA; HANTKENINA;

EID: 74949084907     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2009.2452(17)     Document Type: Conference Paper

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