Submerged terraces in the southwestern Barents Sea: Origin and implications for the Late Cenozoic geological history

Marine Geology

Volumn 130, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 265-280

  Lebesbye, Erland ^a   Vorren, Tore O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAINOZOIC; CENOZOIC (LATE); LATE CAINOZOIC; PLEISTOCENE; PLIO/PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; SUBMERGED TERRACE; SUBMERGENCE; SUBSIDENCE; TECTONICS; TERRACES; WAVE CUT PLATFORM;

BARENTS SEA;

EID: 0029773261     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0025-3227(96)00170-3     Document Type: Article

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