Bioclastic carbonate sediments on the southwestern Svalbard shelf

Marine Geology

Volumn 134, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 163-182

  Andruleit, Harald ^a   Freiwald, André ^b   Schäfer, Priska ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Barnacles; Cold water carbonates; Hiatella; Holocene; Mya; Svalbard shelf

Indexed keywords

BIOCLASTIC CARBONATE; CARBONATE SEDIMENTS; COLD WATER ENVIRONMENT; GLACIAL DEPOSITS; GLACIOMARINE DEPOSIT;

BARENTS SEA, SPITSBERGEN BANK; SVALBARD;

EID: 0030436668     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0025-3227(96)00044-8     Document Type: Article

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