A mid-Oligocene cooling (Oi-2b) reflected in the dinoflagellate record and in depositional sequence architecture. An integrated study from the eastern North Sea Basin

Marine and Petroleum Geology

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1424-1430

  Sliwinska K K ^a   Clausen, O R ^a   Heilmann Clausen, C ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

3D seismics; Dinoflagellates; Oi 2b cooling event; Oligocene; Rupelian Chattian boundary; Sequence stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

3D SEISMIC; 3D SEISMICS; DATA SETS; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCES; GLOBAL TIME; HIGH RESOLUTION; INCISED VALLEY; NORTH SEA; OLIGOCENE; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; RELATIVE SEA LEVEL; SEALEVEL CHANGE; SEQUENCE BOUNDARY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; OXYGEN; SEISMOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

COOLING; CORRELATION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; DINOFLAGELLATE; FORAMINIFERA; INCISED VALLEY; INTEGRATED APPROACH; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; OLIGOCENE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; POCKMARK; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SEISMIC DATA; SEQUENCE BOUNDARY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

DINOPHYCEAE; FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 77954657669     PISSN: 02648172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2010.03.008     Document Type: Article

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