Late Quaternary transgressive large dunes on the sediment-starved Adriatic shelf

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 117, Issue , 1996, Pages 155-169

  Correggiari, A ^a   Field, M E ^b   Trincardi, F ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL SHELVES; DUNE; DUNES; QUATERNARY; SEA LEVEL RISE; SEDIMENT STARVATION; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TRANSGRESSIVE SYSTEMS TRACT;

ADRIATIC SEA;

EID: 0030441911     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.117.01.09     Document Type: Article

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