Late Eocene sea retreat from the Tarim Basin (west China) and concomitant Asian paleoenvironmental change

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 299, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 385-398

  Bosboom, Roderic E ^a   Dupont Nivet, Guillaume ^a,b,c   Houben, Alexander J P ^a   Brinkhuis, Henk ^a   Villa, Giuliana ^d   Mandic, Oleg ^e   Stoica, Marius ^f   Zachariasse, Willem Jan ^a   Guo, ZhaoJie ^b   Li, ChuanXin ^b   Krijgsman, Wout ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Peking University   (China)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^e NATURHISTORISCHES MUSEUM WIEN   (Austria)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

Author keywords

Biostratigraphy; Eocene; Paleoenvironment; Paratethys; Tarim Basin

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BIVALVE; CLIMATE MODELING; DINOFLAGELLATE CYST; EOCENE; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; INLAND SEA; MARINE SEDIMENT; OSTRACOD; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PARATETHYS;

CHINA; KUNLUN MOUNTAINS; PAMIRS; TARIM BASIN; XINJIANG UYGUR;

BARTONIA; BIVALVIA; DINOPHYCEAE; FORAMINIFERA; OSTRACODA; PARATETHYS;

EID: 78651095490     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.11.019     Document Type: Article

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