Event deposits: The role of sediment supply and relative sea-level changes - Overview

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 104, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 11-37

  Einsele, Gerhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

EVENT DEPOSIT; SEA LEVEL VARIATION; SEDIMENT SUPPLY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TEMPESTITE; TURBIDITE;

EID: 0029753748     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0037-0738(95)00118-2     Document Type: Article

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