Integration of macrofossil biostratigraphy and magnetostratigraphy for the Pacific Coast Upper Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian) of North America and implications for correlation with the Western Interior and Tethys

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 5-6, 2012, Pages 957-974

  Ward, Peter D ^a   Haggart, James W ^b   Mitchell, Ross ^c   Kirschvink, Joseph L ^d   Tobin, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GULF COAST; LATE CRETACEOUS; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; NORTH AMERICAN; NORTH PACIFIC; STRATIGRAPHIC RECORDS; STUDY AREAS; TIME-SCALES; UPPER CRETACEOUS; WEST COAST;

INTEGRATION;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY;

AMMONITE; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CAMPANIAN; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; CRETACEOUS; FAUNA; FOSSIL; MAASTRICHTIAN; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; MOLLUSC;

GULF COAST [MEXICO]; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; PACIFIC OCEAN; WESTERN INTERIOR;

AMMONOIDEA;

EID: 84863533978     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 19432674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B30077.1     Document Type: Article

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