Well-traveled cockles: Shell transport during the Holocene transgression of the southern North Sea

Geology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 187-190

  Flessa, Karl W ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEA LEVEL;

GERMAN BIGHT; HOLOCENE TRANSGRESSION; RADIOCARBON DATES; SEA-LEVEL CURVES; SHALLOW WATERS; SOUTHERN NORTH SEA;

SHELLS (STRUCTURES);

BIVALVE; HOLOCENE; INTERTIDAL COMMUNITY; RADIOCARBON DATING; SHELL; TRANSGRESSION; DEPTH DISPLACEMENT; SHELL TRANSPORT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

EID: 0031972256     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1998)026<0187:WTCSTD>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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