210Pb chronology of sequences affected by burrow excavation and infilling: Examples from shallow marine carbonate sediment sequences, Holocene South Florida and Caicos Platform, British West Indies

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 36-46

  Tedesco, Lenore P ^a   Aller, Robert C ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTURBATION; BURROWING; BURROWING ORGANISMS; CARBONATE PLATFORM; CARBONATE PLATFORMS; LEAD-210 DATING;

TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS, CAICOS PLATFORM; USA, FLORIDA;

DEPOSITS; EXCAVATION; SEDIMENTATION; TEXTURES;

BIOTURBATION; CARBONATE PLATFORMS; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; HOLOCENE SEDIMENTS; RAPID TRANSFORMATIONS; SHALLOW MARINE; SOUTH FLORIDA; TRANSFORMATION RATES;

SURFICIAL SEDIMENTS;

EID: 0030980730     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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