Inferred bivalve response to rapid burial in a Pleistocene shallow-marine deposit from New Zealand

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 128, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 87-100

  Kondo, Yasuo ^a  

^a KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

bivalve; New Zealand; obrution; pleistocene; rapid burial; taphonomy

Indexed keywords

BIVALVE; BURIAL; OBRUTION; PLEISTOCENE; TAPHONOMY;

NEW ZEALAND, NORTH ISLAND, WANGANUI BASIN;

EID: 0030620749     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(96)00039-9     Document Type: Article

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