Geological Timescale

Stratotype Point Base of Danian

http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/ics/ischart/BaseCenozoicSP

label Stratotype Point Base of Danian
alt label
Stratotype Point Base of Cenozoic
Stratotype Point Base of Paleocene
Stratotype Point Base of Paleogene
ratified GSSP true
boundary level reddish layer at the Base of the 50cm thick, dark boundary clay
comment Oued Djerfane, west of El Kef, Tunisia
correlation event Iridium geochemical anomaly. Associated with a major extinction horizon (dinosaurs, ammonites, foraminifers, etc.)
see also
Danian.pdf original
index.html original
image.php?periodid=34&top_parentid=0&imageid=290 original
source Episodes 29/4, p. 263 278, 2006
status Ratified 1991
type
StratigraphicPoint original
Resource original
Concept original
has geometry Location of Stratotype Point Base of Cenozoic original
represents boundary
Base of Cenozoic original
stratotype BaseCenozoicSP original