The paradox of drowned carbonate platforms and the origin of Cretaceous Pacific guyots

Nature

Volumn 392, Issue 6679, 1998, Pages 889-894

  Wilson, Paul A ^a   Jenkynst, Hugh C ^b   Elderfield, Henry ^a   Larson, Roger L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CARBONATE;

CARBONATE PLATFORM; CRETACEOUS; DROWNING; GUYOT; SEAMOUNT;

GEOLOGY; OCEANIC REGIONS; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEA;

PACIFIC;

EID: 0032580155     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/31865     Document Type: Review

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