Postglacial sequence stratigraphy of Lake Melville, Labrador

Marine Geology

Volumn 143, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 55-79

  Syvitski, James P M ^a   Lee, Hee J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Glaciers; Sediments; Seismics; Sequence stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031471765     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-3227(97)00090-X     Document Type: Article

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