Interaction of climate and tectonics upon alluvial architecture: Late Carboniferous-Early Permian sequences at the southern margin of the Pennine Basin, UK

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 121, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 13-34

  Glover, Brian W ^a   Powell, John H ^a  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONIFEROUS;

ALLUVIAL SEDIMENT; CARBONIFEROUS; PALAEOCLIMATE; PERMIAN; SEDIMENTARY ARCHITECTURE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

UK, ENGLAND, PENNINE BASIN;

EID: 0029776605     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-0182(95)00050-X     Document Type: Article

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