Radiolarians and Diatoms from the mid-Cretaceous Successions of the Sergipe Basin, Northeastern Brazil: palaeoceanographic Assessment

Koutsoukos, Eduardo A. M.; Hart, Malcolm B.

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01 Jul 1990

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Radiolarians and Diatoms from the mid-Cretaceous Successions of the Sergipe Basin, Northeastern Brazil: palaeoceanographic Assessment

Eduardo A. M. Koutsoukos and Malcolm B. Hart

Eduardo A. M. Koutsoukos

Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. (PETROBRAS) - CENPES, Cidade Universitária, Q.7, CEP: 21910, Ilha do Fundão, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Malcolm B. Hart

Department of Geological Sciences, POLYTECHNIC SOUTH WEST, Plymouth, PL4 8AA, Devon, England

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