Discrimination between coastal ramps and marine terraces at Punta Chivato on the pliocene-pleistocene Gulf of California

Journal of Geoscience Education

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 569-575

  Johnson, Markes E ^a,b   Simian, Maximino E ^a,b  

^a WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Williams College ^*  (Chile)

Author keywords

Geology field trips and field study; Paleontology invertebrate; Petrology sedimentary; Stratigraphy, historical geology, paleoecology; Surficial geology geomorphology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000810276     PISSN: 10899995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5408/0022-1368-44.5.569     Document Type: Article

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