Paleogene stratigraphy and sea-level history of the North Carolina Coastal Plain: Global coastal onlap and tectonics

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 108, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 91-120

  Harris, W Burleigh ^a   Laws, Richard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Atlantic continental margin; Eustasy; Sequence stratigraphy; Subsidence; Uplift

Indexed keywords

EUSTASY; PALAEOGENE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBSIDENCE; UPLIFT;

USA, NORTH CAROLINA, COASTAL PLAIN;

EID: 0030738032     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0037-0738(96)00049-8     Document Type: Article

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