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A new stratigraphic procedure that combines sequence stratigraphy and grade dating based on chronometric calibration of Rosita fornicata lineage evolution is applies to the analysis of the South Pyrenean Senonian Basin. These methods give eustatic and biometric curves both constructed according to Haq’s chronology and they permit time-correlations without variations in accuracy. In this way, two kinds of stratigraphic units are recognized and numerically dated from the Senonian-Early Danien in the South-Pyrenean foredeep Basin. These units are: eustatically-controlled depositional sequences; and tectonically-controlled depositional sequence sets.
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Fondecave-Wallez, MJ., Gourinard, Y., Souquet, P. (1990). Sequence Stratigraphy and Grade-Dating in the Senonian Series from the South-Pyrenees (Spain), the Sedimentary Record of Eustacy and Tectonics. In: Ginsburg, R.N., Beaudoin, B. (eds) Cretaceous Resources, Events and Rhythms. NATO ASI Series, vol 304. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-6861-6_5
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