Mid-latitude calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy and biochronology across the middle to late eocene transition

Stratigraphy

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 229-264

  Fornaciari, Eliana ^a   Agnini, Claudia ^a   Catanzariti, Rita ^b   Rio, Domenico ^a   Bolla, Eleonora M ^c   Valvasoni, Elisabetta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c ENI S P A   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BIOCHRONOLOGY; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BIOZONATION; EOCENE; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; NANOFOSSIL; NEW GENUS; NEW SPECIES; PALEOENVIRONMENT; TAXONOMY;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 79953076907     PISSN: 1547139X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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