Substrate control on distribution of subglacial and glaciomarine seismic facies based on stochastic models of glacial seismic facies deposition on the Ross Sea continental margin, Antarctica

Marine Geology

Volumn 143, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 223-262

  Bartek, Louis R ^a   Andersen, Janel L R ^a   Oneacre, Todd A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cenozoic; Climate change; Continental margin; Glacial; Seismic stratigraphy; Stochastic model

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031472038     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-3227(97)00099-6     Document Type: Article

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