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New Zealand Mid-Tertiary Stratigraphical Correlation

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DR. D. G. JENKINS recently averred1 that, consequent to the discovery of Globorotalia kugleri in rocks of Otaian age in New Zealand, our2 correlation between the mid-Tertiary stages of New Zealand and the Cipero Formation globigerinid zones of Trinidad is ‘completely wrong’.

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EAMES, F., BANNER, F., BLOW, W. et al. New Zealand Mid-Tertiary Stratigraphical Correlation. Nature 203, 180–181 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/203180a0

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