Recent and ancient fluvial deposition systems in the Amazonian foreland basin, Peru

Geological Magazine

Volumn 129, Issue 3, 1992, Pages 293-306

  Räsänen, Matti ^a   Neller, Ron ^b   Salo, Jukka ^a   Jungner, Högne ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIUM; CAINOZOIC; DRAINAGE BASIN; FLOODING; FLUVIAL DEPOSITION; FORELAND BASIN; HOLOCENE; PLEISTOCENE;

PERU, AMAZON BASIN;

EID: 0026451582     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: 14695081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756800019233     Document Type: Article

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