Early Paleogene transgressions: Stratigraphical and sedimentological evidence from the northern Peri-Tethys

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 369, Issue , 2003, Pages 239-261

  Radionova, E P ^a   Beniamovski, V N ^a   Iakovleva, A I ^b   Muzylov N G ^a   Oreshkina, T V ^a   Shcherbinina, E A ^a   Kozlova, G E ^c  

^a GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c Gramberg All Russia Research Institute   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS; PHYTOPLANKTON; PROTOZOA; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERS; CALCAREOUS SEDIMENTS; NORTH ATLANTIC; REGIONAL SCALE; SEDIMENT FACIES; SEDIMENTARY CYCLES; SEDIMENTOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; WEST SIBERIA;

SEDIMENTS;

CALCAREOUS SOIL; MICROFOSSIL; ORGANIC MATTER; PALEOGENE; SILICEOUS DEPOSIT;

EID: 84871430743     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2369-8.239     Document Type: Article

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