Detailed correlation and astronomical forcing within the Upper Maastrichtian succession in the Basque Basin;Correlación detallada y control orbital de la sucesión del Maastrichtiense Superior de la Cuenca Vasca

Boletin Geologico y Minero

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 253-282

  Dinares Turell J ^a   Pujalte, V ^b   Stoykova, K ^c   Elorza, J ^b  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^c GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Calcareous nannofossils; Cyclostratigraphy; Depositional sequences; Magnetostratigraphy; Milankovitch

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; CYCLOSTRATIGRAPHY; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; LIMESTONE; LITHOLOGY; MAASTRICHTIAN; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; MARL; MILANKOVITCH CYCLE; NANOFOSSIL; PALEOGENE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION;

BASQUE COUNTRY; SPAIN;

EID: 84879131654     PISSN: 03660176     EISSN: 22536167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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