Palaeoenvironmental significance of marine and terrestrial Tertiary sediments on the NW Scottish shelf in BGS borehole 77/7

Scottish Journal of Geology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 31-42

  Evans, D ^a   Morton, A C ^a   Wilson, S ^b   Jolley, D ^b   Barreiro, B A ^c  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLE; PALAEOENVIRONMENT; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; TERTIARY;

ATLANTIC, (NORTH);

EID: 0031449720     PISSN: 00369276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/sjg33010031     Document Type: Article

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