The Palaeocene/Eocene boundary section at Zumaia (Basque-Cantabric Basin) revisited: New insights from high-resolution magnetic susceptibility and carbon isotope chemostratigraphy on organic matter (δ 13C org)

Terra Nova

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 310-317

  Storme, Jean Yves ^a   Devleeschouwer, Xavier ^b   Schnyder, Johann ^c   Cambier, Geoffrey ^b   Baceta, Juan Ignacio ^d   Pujalte, Victoriano ^d   Di Matteo, Antonietta ^e   Iacumin, Paola ^e   Yans, Johan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

^b ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; EUSTACY; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; ORGANIC MATTER; PALEOCENE-EOCENE BOUNDARY; PALEOGENE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

BASQUE COUNTRY; GUIPUZCOA; PYRENEES; SPAIN; ZUMAIA;

EID: 84863775980     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: 13653121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2012.01064.x     Document Type: Article

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