Astrochronology of the Early Turonian-Early Campanian terrestrial succession in the Songliao Basin, northeastern China and its implication for long-period behavior of the Solar System

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 385, Issue , 2013, Pages 55-70

  Wu, Huaichun ^a,b   Zhang, Shihong ^a   Jiang, Ganqing ^c   Hinnov, Linda ^d   Yang, Tianshui ^a   Li, Haiyan ^a   Wan, Xiaoqiao ^a   Wang, Chengshan ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Astronomical time scale (ATS); China; Cyclostratigraphy; Lacustrine paleoenvironments; Late Cretaceous; Long period orbital forcing; Songliao Basin

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE; ASTRONOMY; ASTROPHYSICS; BOREHOLE; CAMPANIAN; CYCLOSTRATIGRAPHY; ECCENTRICITY; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MILANKOVITCH CYCLE; ORBITAL FORCING; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SECULAR VARIATION; SOLAR SYSTEM; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; TIMESCALE; TURONIAN; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

CHINA; NEN BASIN; SONGLIAO BASIN;

EID: 84879876484     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.09.004     Document Type: Article

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