Facies characteristics of a proglacial turbiditic sand-lobe at Svalbard

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 109, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 13-18

  Lønne, Ida ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

Delta; Svalbard; Turbidite; Weichselian

Indexed keywords

DELTA; FACIES DISTRIBUTION; GLACIATION; TURBIDITE; WEICHSELIAN;

SVALBARD;

EID: 0030920190     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0037-0738(96)00036-X     Document Type: Article

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