Late Dinantian palaeokarst of England and Wales: Implications for exposure surface development

Sedimentology

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 19-37

  Vanstone, Simon D ^a,b  

^a SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONIFEROUS; DINANTIAN; PALAEOGEOGRAPHY; PALAEOKARST;

UK, ENGLAND; UK, WALES;

EID: 0031843392     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3091.1998.00132.x     Document Type: Article

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