Gas venting and late Quaternary sedimentation in the Persian (Arabian) Gulf

Marine Geology

Volumn 129, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 237-269

  Uchupi, Elazar ^a   Swift, S A ^a   Ross, D A ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITIONAL HISTORY; ECHO SOUNDING; GAS SEEP; MICROTOPOGRAPHY; PALAEOGEOGRAPHY; POCK MARKS; QUATERNARY; REGRESSION; SEDIMENTATION; THERMOGENIC GAS; TRANSGRESSION;

ARABIAN GULF;

EID: 0029729732     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0025-3227(96)83347-0     Document Type: Article

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