Exhumation of the Pyrenean Orogen: implications for sediment discharge

Basin Research

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 69-85

  Morris, R G ^a   Sinclair, H D ^a   Yelland, A J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAINOZOIC; DENUDATION; SEDIMENT DISCHARGE;

EUROPE, PYRENEES;

EID: 0031664660     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2117.1998.00053.x     Document Type: Article

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