Connecting the Chalk Group of the Campine Basin to the dinoflagellate cyst biostratigraphy of the Campanian to Danian in borehole Meer (northern Belgium)

Geologie en Mijnbouw/Netherlands Journal of Geosciences

Volumn 90, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 129-164

  Slimani, H ^a   Louwye, S ^b   Dusar, M ^c   Lagrou, D ^d  

^a MOHAMMED V UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^d FLEMISH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH VITO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Biostratigraphy; Correlation; Danian; Lithostratigraphy; Organic walled dinoflagellate cysts; Southern North Sea Basin; Upper cretaceous

Indexed keywords

BELEMNITE; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CAMPANIAN; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; CORRELATION; DANIAN; DINOFLAGELLATE CYST; LITHOLOGY; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALYNOLOGY; STRATOTYPE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CAMPINE BASIN; NORTH SEA;

BELEMNOIDEA; DEFLANDREA; DINOPHYCEAE;

EID: 80955167315     PISSN: 00167746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0016774600001074     Document Type: Article

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