On the age of the Early/Middle Eocene boundary and other related events: Cyclostratigraphic refinements from the Pyrenean Otsakar section and the Lutetian GSSP

Geological Magazine

Volumn 148, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 442-460

  Payros, A ^a   Dinares Turell J ^b   Bernaola, G ^a   Orue Etxebarria, X ^a   Apellaniz, E ^a   Tosquella, J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HUELVA   (Spain)

Author keywords

biostratigraphy; cyclostratigraphy; Eocene; magnetostratigraphy; Ypresian Lutetian boundary

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY;

BASQUE COUNTRY; CALCAREOUS NANNOFOSSIL; CORRELATION CRITERION; CYCLOSTRATIGRAPHY; EARLY EOCENE; EOCENE; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; YPRESIAN-LUTETIAN BOUNDARY;

FERTILIZERS;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CYCLOSTRATIGRAPHY; EOCENE-OLIGOCENE BOUNDARY; LUTETIAN; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; MARL; MUDSTONE; NANOFOSSIL; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; STRATIGRAPHIC BOUNDARY; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; YPRESIAN;

TURBOROTALIA;

EID: 79960379678     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: 14695081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756810000890     Document Type: Article

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