Low-sea-level emplacement of a very large Late Pleistocene 'megaturbidite' in the western Mediterranean Sea

Nature

Volumn 392, Issue 6674, 1998, Pages 377-380

  Rothwell, R G ^a   Thomson, J ^a   Kahler G ^a  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON 14;

LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PLEISTOCENE; SEA LEVEL; TURBIDITE; TURBIDITS;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA, BALEARIC BASIN;

EID: 0032568446     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/32871     Document Type: Article

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