Seafloor environments in Cape Cod Bay, a large coastal embayment

Marine Geology

Volumn 133, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 11-33

  Knebel, H J ^a   Rendigs, R R ^a   List, J H ^a   Signell, R P ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ENVIRONMENT; EMBAYMENT; FACIES DISTRIBUTION; SEA FLOOR SEDIMENT; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

USA, MASSACHUSETTS, CAPE COD BAY;

EID: 0030176959     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0025-3227(96)00014-X     Document Type: Article

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