Revised middle Eocene-upper Oligocene calcareous nannofossil biozonation for the Southern Ocean

Revue de Micropaleontologie

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 53-70

  Fioroni, Chiara ^a   Villa, Giuliana ^b   Persico, Davide ^b   Wise, Sherwood W ^c   Pea, Laura ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biostratigraphy; Calcareous Nannofossils; Eocene; Oligocene; Southern Ocean

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BIOZONATION; DEEP-SEA SEDIMENT; EOCENE-OLIGOCENE BOUNDARY; FLORA; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; NANOFOSSIL; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT CORE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 84862219300     PISSN: 00351598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.revmic.2012.03.001     Document Type: Article

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