Global correlation of upper campanian- maastrichtian successions using carbon-isotope stratigraphy: Development of a new maastrichtian timescale

Newsletters on Stratigraphy

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 25-53

  Voigt, Silke ^a   Gale, Andrew S ^b   Jung, Claudia ^a   Jenkyns, Hugh C ^c  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Campanian; Carbon isotope stratigraphy; Maastrichtian

Indexed keywords

CAMPANIAN; CARBON ISOTOPE; CRETACEOUS; FOSSIL RECORD; GLACIOEUSTACY; MAASTRICHTIAN; NANOFOSSIL; PALEOGENE; STRATIGRAPHY;

AQUITAINE; ENGLAND; FRANCE; LANDES; NORFOLK [ENGLAND]; TERCIS; UNITED KINGDOM;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 84861456162     PISSN: 00780421     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0078-0421/2012/0016     Document Type: Article

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