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Cretaceous Stage Boundaries — Proposals

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A unified scale of Cretaceous stages has been generally accepted for a long time. However, the earliest stage, the Berriasian, is often replaced by the Ryazanian, reflecting the particular difficulties of correlating between the Tethyan and the Boreal Realms around the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary.

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    T. Birkelund

  2. Department of Geology, King’s College, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS, UK

    J. M. Hancock

  3. Department of Environmental Sciences, Plymouth Polytechnic, Drake Circus, Plymouth, PL4 8AA, UK

    M. B. Hart

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