Late Eocene foraminifers and palaeoenvironment, Cascade Seamount, southwest Pacific Ocean: Implications for seamount subsidence and Australia Antarctica Eocene correlation

Australian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 633-641

  Quilty, P G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cascade Seamount; East Tasman Plateau; Eocene; Foraminifers; Palaeoenvironment; Southwest Pacific

Indexed keywords

EID: 85024019114     PISSN: 08120099     EISSN: 14400952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-0952.2001.485886.x     Document Type: Article

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