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Science 14 June 1968:
Vol. 160. no. 3833, pp. 1225 - 1228
DOI: 10.1126/science.160.3833.1225
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European Cretaceous Flints on the Coast of North America

K. O. Emery 1, C. A. Kaye 2, D. H. Loring 3, and D. J. G. Nota 4

1 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts
2 U.S. Geological Survey, Boston, Massachusetts
3 Atlantic Oceanographic Group, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
4 State Agricultural University, Wageningen, Netherlands

Flint pebbles and nodules from the Upper Cretaceous chalks of Europe occur offshore and at many seaports along the Atlantic coast of North America, where they were brought as ship's ballast. Isolated pieces imported from Europe as gunflints also are present.


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Ballast Overboard!.
K. O. Emery and K. O. Emery (1968)
Science 162, 308-309
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