Firmgrounds - Key surfaces in the recognition of parasequences in the Aptian Lower Greensand Group, Isle of Wight (southern England)

Sedimentology

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 91-107

  Ruffell, Alastair ^a   Wach, Grant ^b  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b Texaco Inc Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APTIAN; CYCLICITY; FIRMGROUND; PARASEQUENCE;

UK, ENGLAND;

EID: 0031814669     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3091.1998.00147.x     Document Type: Article

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