Chitinozoan biostratigraphy of a new Upper Ordovician stratigraphic framework for Anticosti Island, Canada

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 186-205

  Achab, Aicha ^a   Asselin, Esther ^b   Desrochers, André ^c   Riva, John F ^a   Farley, Claude ^c  

^a CENTRE EAU TERRE ENVIRONNEMENT   (Canada)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHIC DATA; ORDOVICIAN; SCOTLAND; STRATIGRAPHIC DATA; STRATIGRAPHIC FRAMEWORK;

STRATIGRAPHY;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; FACIES; MICROFOSSIL; ORDOVICIAN; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SILURIAN; STRATOTYPE;

ANTICOSTI ISLAND; CANADA; CHINA; DOBS LINN; DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY; QUEBEC [CANADA]; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

CHITINOZOA;

EID: 79251529543     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B30131.1     Document Type: Article

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