Chemostratigraphic correlation of four fossil-bearing sections in southwestern North Dakota

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 361, Issue , 2002, Pages 75-93

  Arens, Nan Crystal ^a   Jahren, A Hope ^b  

^a HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRIDIUM; ISOTOPES;

CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; DISSOLVED INORGANIC CARBON; IRIDIUM ENRICHMENT; MARINE SURFACES; PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTS; SECULAR VARIATION; TAPHONOMIC VARIATIONS; VEGETATION CHANGE;

CARBON;

CARBON ISOTOPE; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; CRETACEOUS-PALEOGENE BOUNDARY; FOSSIL RECORD; VEGETATION HISTORY;

NORTH DAKOTA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84871345680     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2361-2.75     Document Type: Article

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