Timing of the middle miocene badenian stage of the central paratethys

Geologica Carpathica

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 55-66

  Hohenegger, Johann ^a   Coric, Stjepan ^b   Wagreich, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b ZAMG Zentralanstalt fuer Meteorologie und Geodynamik   (Austria)

Author keywords

Badenian; Biostratigraphy; Magnetostratigraphy; Middle Miocene; Paleoclimate; Paratethys; Sequence stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

BADENIAN; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; DATUM; NANOFOSSIL; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PARATETHYS; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; SEA LEVEL; SEQUENCE BOUNDARY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SERRAVALLIAN;

VIENNA BASIN;

FOHSELLA; FORAMINIFERA; HELICOSPHAERA; HELICOSPHAERA WALTRANS; LAGENIDAE; ORBULINA SUTURALIS; PARATETHYS; PRAEORBULINA; SICANA;

EID: 84902480505     PISSN: 13350552     EISSN: 13368052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/geoca-2014-0004     Document Type: Article

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