The Pre-Pliocene course of the Lower Tennessee River as deduced from river terrace gravels in Southwest Tennessee

Southeastern Geology

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 61-70

  Self, Robert P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE AT MARTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEOGENE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; RIVER TERRACE;

TENNESSEE; TENNESSEE RIVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0004689949     PISSN: 00383678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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