Palynology and microstratigraphy of Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary sections in southwestern North Dakota

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 361, Issue , 2002, Pages 95-143

  Nichols, Douglas J ^a   Johnson, Kirk R ^b  

^a DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; MICROSTRATIGRAPHY; PALEOENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; PALYNOSTRATIGRAPHY; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

BADLANDS; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; DATABASE; EXTINCTION RISK; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MAASTRICHTIAN; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; MICROSTRUCTURE; PALEONTOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; VERTEBRATE;

ENGLAND; LITTLE MISSOURI RIVER; LUDLOW; NORTH DAKOTA; SHROPSHIRE; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84871293675     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2361-2.95     Document Type: Article

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