Mid-cycle condensed shellbeds from mid-Pleistocene cyclothems, New Zealand: Implications for sequence architecture

Sedimentology

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 805-824

  Abbott, Stephen T ^a,b  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Northern Territory Geological Survey   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLEISTOCENE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

NEW ZEALAND, NORTH ISLAND, WANGANUI BASIN;

EID: 0031435843     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3091.1997.d01-50.x     Document Type: Article

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