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We present a biostratigraphic study of the Enza section that provides robust constraints on the timing of deposition in a case where the lack of magnetic polarity reversals in the marine part of the section does not allow palaeomagnetic age constraints to be obtained.
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Negri, A. et al. (2014). Biostratigraphy as a Tool to Validate High-Resolution OSL, CRN, and Sequence-Stratigraphic Data. In: Rocha, R., Pais, J., Kullberg, J., Finney, S. (eds) STRATI 2013. Springer Geology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04364-7_218
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