Integrated biostratigraphy and carbon isotope stratigraphy of the Lower Cretaceous (Barremian to Albian) Adriatic-Dinaridic carbonate platform deposits in Istria, Croatia

Cretaceous Research

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 301-324

  Cvetko Tešović, Blanka ^a   Glumac, Bosiljka ^b   Bucković, Damir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b SMITH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adriatic Dinaridic carbonate platform; Biostratigraphy; Depositional environments and palaeoecology; Early Cretaceous; Microfossil assemblages; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

ALBIAN; BARREMIAN; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBONATE PLATFORM; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; IDENTIFICATION KEY; MICROFOSSIL; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; STABLE ISOTOPE; TYPE LOCALITY;

CROATIA; ISTRIA;

ALGAE; DASYCLADALES; FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 79952311541     PISSN: 01956671     EISSN: 1095998X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2010.12.011     Document Type: Article

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