Biostratigraphic, chemostratigraphic, and magnetostratigraphic study across the Paleocene-Eocene boundary in the Hengyang Basin, Hunan, China

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 369, Issue , 2003, Pages 521-535

  Ting, Suyin ^a,b   Bowen, Gabriel J ^c   Koch, Paul L ^c   Clyde, William C ^d   Wang, Yuanqing ^b   Weng, Yuan ^b   McKenna, Malcolm C ^e  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Univ of New Hampshire   (United States)

^e DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ISOTOPES; MAMMALS; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

BIGHORN BASINS; CARBON ISOTOPE EXCURSIONS; INNER MONGOLIA; MAMMALIAN SPECIES; PALEOCENE; PALEOCENE-EOCENE BOUNDARIES; PALEOMAGNETIC ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL CORRELATIONS;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; FOSSIL RECORD; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; MAMMAL; PALEOCENE-EOCENE BOUNDARY; PALEOMAGNETISM; SEDIMENTARY ROCK;

CHINA; HENGYANG; HUNAN;

EID: 84871426243     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2369-8.521     Document Type: Article

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