Determining apparent exhumation from Chalk outcrop samples, Cleveland Basin/East Midlands Shelf

Geological Magazine

Volumn 133, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 751-762

  Menpes, Robert J ^a   Hillis, Richard R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN INVERSION; CHALK; CRETACEOUS; EXHUMATION; POROSITY;

UK, ENGLAND, CLEVELAND BASIN; UK, ENGLAND, EAST MIDLANDS SHELF;

EID: 0030435048     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0016756800024596     Document Type: Article

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