Glacial eustasy during the Cenozoic: sequence stratigraphic implications

AAPG Bulletin

Volumn 82, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1385-1400

  Abreu, Vitor S ^c   Anderson, John B ^a,b  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL EUSTASY;

GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

PETROLEUM GEOLOGY;

CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; EUSTACY; GLACIOEUSTACY; ICE SHEET; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 0032124642     PISSN: 01491423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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