Climatic cyclicity and accommodation space in arid to semi-arid depositional systems: an example from the Rotliegend Group of the UK southern North Sea

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 123, Issue , 1997, Pages 63-86

  Howell, John ^a,b   Mountney, Nigel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CYCLICITY; PERMIAN;

NORTH SEA;

EID: 0031545609     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.1997.123.01.05     Document Type: Article

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