Quantification of the Pliocene-Pleistocene erosion of the Barents Sea from present-day bathymetry

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 12, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 119-133

  Rasmussen, Eigil ^a   Fjeldskaar, Willy ^b  

^a STATOIL   (Norway)

^b Rogaland Research   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; EROSION; QUATERNARY; RELIEF; TERTIARY;

BARENTS SEA, BARENTS SHELF;

EID: 0030438712     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0921-8181(95)00015-1     Document Type: Article

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