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Miocene and Pliocene sediments dredged from the sea-floor off St Helens, northeastern Tasmania
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Quilty, PG 1985
, 'Miocene and Pliocene sediments dredged from the sea-floor off St Helens, northeastern Tasmania'
, Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, vol. 119
, pp. 93-101
, doi: https://doi.org/10.26749/rstpp.119.93.
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Abstract
Calcarenites dredged from 807 and 960m, 50km southeast of St Helens, Tasmania, have yielded Early Miocene and mid-Pliocene foraminiferid faunas. The Miocene fauna is a deeper water continental shelf type of the same age (N4j 5) as other sediments well known from the northern coast of Tasmania. It contains a higher percentage of planktic forms than known in coeval sediments elsewhere in Tasmania. The mid-Pliocene (approximately N20)
including a significant planktic component, is the first such fauna documented from Tasmania.
Item Type: | Article |
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Authors/Creators: | Quilty, PG |
Keywords: | Royal Society of Tasmania, RST, Van Diemens Land, natural history, science, ecology, taxonomy, botany, zoology, geology, geography, papers & proceedings, Australia, UTAS Library |
Journal or Publication Title: | Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania |
ISSN: | 0080-4703 |
DOI / ID Number: | https://doi.org/10.26749/rstpp.119.93 |
Collections: | Royal Society Collection > Papers & Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania |
Additional Information: | Copyright Royal Society of Tasmania |
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