Late cenozoic seismic stratigraphy and glacial geological development of the East Greenland and Svalbard-Barents sea continental margins

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 17, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 155-184

  Solheim, Anders ^a,g   Faleide, Jan Inge ^b   Andersen, Espen S ^c   Elverhøi, Anders ^b   Forsberg, Carl Fredrik ^a,g   Vanneste, Kris ^d   Uenzelmann Neben, Gabriele ^e   Channell, James E T ^f  

^a NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c STATOIL   (Norway)

^d GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^e ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^g ROYAL OBSERVATORY OF BELGIUM   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; GLACIAL HISTORY; QUATERNARY; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY;

ARCTIC;

EID: 0031852629     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-3791(97)00068-1     Document Type: Article

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