Middle Eocene to earliest Oligocene development in the eastern North Sea Basin: Biostratigraphy, magnetostratigraphy and palaeoenvironment of the Kysing-4 borehole, Denmark

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 350-352, Issue , 2012, Pages 212-235

  Thomsen, Erik ^a   Abrahamsen, Niels ^a   Heilmann Clausen, Claus ^a   King, Chris ^b   Nielsen, Ole Bjørslev ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Calcareous nannofossils; Dinoflagellates; Eocene; Foraminifera; Magnetostratigraphy; North Sea; Oligocene; Orbital Milankovitch cycles

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BOREHOLE; DINOFLAGELLATE CYST; FACIES; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; MICROFOSSIL; MILANKOVITCH CYCLE; NANOFOSSIL; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOMAGNETISM; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; SUCCESSION; TIMESCALE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; DENMARK; JUTLAND; NORTH SEA;

DINOPHYCEAE; FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 84864548019     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.06.034     Document Type: Article

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