A refined calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy for the middle Eocene-early Oligocene Southern Ocean ODP sites

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 335-336, Issue , 2012, Pages 12-23

  Persico, D ^a   Fioroni, C ^b   Villa, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biostratigraphy; Eocene; Nannofossils; Oligocene; Southern Ocean

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BIOZONATION; CHRONOLOGY; EOCENE-OLIGOCENE BOUNDARY; NANOFOSSIL; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANKTON; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH); INDIAN OCEAN; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84861474216     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.05.017     Document Type: Article

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