Fixing a basal Berriasian and Jurassic/Cretaceous (J/K) boundary - Is there perhaps some light at the end of the tunnel?

Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 295-307

  Wimbledon, William A P ^a   Casellato, Cristina E ^b   Reháková, Daniela ^c   Bulot, Luc G ^d   Erba, Elisabetta ^b   Gardin, Silvia ^e   Verreussel, Roel M C H ^f   Munsterman, Dirk K ^f   Hunt, Christopher O ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

^d AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^e Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^f TNO   (Netherlands)

^g QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ammonites; Austral; Berriasian; Boreal; Calcareous nannofossils; Calpionellids; Correlation; GSSP; J K boundary; Magnetostratigraphy; Non marine; Palynomorphs; Tethyan

Indexed keywords

AMMONITE; BERRIASIAN; BIOMARKER; CALIBRATION; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; JURASSIC-CRETACEOUS BOUNDARY; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; NANOFOSSIL; TETHYS;

BERRIASELLA; CALPIONELLA; CODONELLOPSIDAE; NANNOCONUS; PSEUDOSUBPLANITES;

EID: 80053273759     PISSN: 00356883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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