Significance of indigenous Eocene larger foraminifera Discocyclina dispansa in Western Foothills, Central Taiwan: A Paleogene marine rift basin in Chinese continental margin

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

Volumn 62, Issue , 2013, Pages 425-437

  Huang, Chi Yue ^a,b   Yen, Yi ^b   Liew, Ping Mei ^c   He, Dai Jie ^b   Chi, Wen Ron ^b   Wu, Min Shyan ^d   Zhao, Meixun ^e  

^a GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d CPC CORPORATION   (Taiwan)

^e Ocean University of China   (China)

Author keywords

Break up unconformity; Discocyclina; Eocene rift basin; Taiwan; Western Foothills

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; EOCENE; FORAMINIFERA; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; NANOFOSSIL; NANOPLANKTON; RIFT ZONE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA; TAIWAN;

BARTONIA; DISCOCYCLINA; FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 84872794120     PISSN: 13679120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2012.10.026     Document Type: Article

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