Controls on Early Permian shelf deglaciation in the Karoo Basin of South Africa

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 125, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 129-139

  Visser, Johan N J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL SHELF; DEGLACIATION; GONDWANA; PERMIAN; SEA LEVEL VARIATION; TILLITE;

SOUTH AFRICA, KAROO BASIN;

EID: 0030251289     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(96)00027-2     Document Type: Article

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