Chronostratigraphic terminology at the Paleocene/Eocene boundary

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 369, Issue , 2003, Pages 551-566

  Aubry, Marie Pierre ^a   Berggren, William A ^a,b   Van Couvering, John A ^c   Ali, Jason ^d   Brinkhuis, Henk ^e   Cramer, Benjamin ^a   Kent, Dennis V ^a,n   Swisher III, Carl C ^a   Dupuis, Christian ^f   Gingerich, Philip D ^g   Heilmann Clausen, Claus ^h   King, Chris ⁱ   Ward, David J ⁱ   Knox, Robert W O B ^j   Ouda, Khaled ^k   Stott, Lowell D ^l   Thiry, Medard ^m  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^e UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f Mons Polytechnics   (Belgium)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^h AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

^j BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^k Assiut University   (Egypt)

^l UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^m PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

ⁿ Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPES; STRATIGRAPHY;

CARBON ISOTOPE EXCURSIONS; DEEP WATER TEMPERATURE; DESTABILIZING EFFECT; INTEGRATED RESEARCH; PALEOCENE-EOCENE THERMAL MAXIMUMS; STABLE-ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; STRATIGRAPHIC FEATURES; TERRESTRIAL DEPOSITS;

TERMINOLOGY;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CARBON ISOTOPE; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALEOCENE; PALEOCENE-EOCENE BOUNDARY;

EID: 84871440451     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2369-8.551     Document Type: Article

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