Orbital time scale, intra-platform basin correlation, carbon isotope stratigraphy and sea-level history of the Cenomanian-Turonian Eastern Levant platform, Jordan

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 341, Issue , 2010, Pages 171-186

  Wendler, Jens E ^a,b   Lehmann, Jens ^a   Kuss, Jochen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLACK SHALE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBONATE PLATFORM; CENOMANIAN-TURONIAN BOUNDARY; ECCENTRICITY; GYPSUM; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; STRATOTYPE; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; WATER DEPTH;

JORDAN;

EID: 80053346359     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP341.8     Document Type: Article

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