Hettangian to Sinemurian (Lower Jurassic) sea-level changes and palaeoenvironments: Evidence from benthic foraminifera at East Quantoxhead, West Somerset, U.K.

Geoscience in South-West England

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 285-288

  Hylton, Mark D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

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