Reworking and discontinuities in Holocene sedimentation in the Nile Delta: Documentation from amino acid racemization and stable isotopes in mollusk shells

Marine Geology

Volumn 129, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 271-283

  Goodfriend, Glenn A ^a   Stanley, Daniel Jean ^b  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID RACEMIZATION; DELTAIC SEDIMENTATION; DISCONTINUITIES; HIATUS; HOLOCENE; HOLOCENE SEDIMENTATION; METHOD EVALUATION; RACEMIZATION; REWORKING; SEDIMENTARY RECORD; STABLE ISOTOPE;

EGYPT, ALEXANDRIA, LAKE MARYUT; EGYPT, NILE DELTA;

EID: 0029731711     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0025-3227(96)83348-2     Document Type: Article

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