Large-scale channel fill structures in Late Ordovician glacial deposits in Mauritania, western Sahara

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 119, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 141-159

  Ghienne, Jean François ^a   Deynoux, Max ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG EOST   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL FILL; GLACIATION; GONDWANA; ORDOVICIAN;

AFRICA;

EID: 0031711680     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0037-0738(98)00045-1     Document Type: Article

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