Mid- to late Quaternary environments and stratigraphy of the southern Sierra Leone shelf, West Africa

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 156, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 977-990

  Pegler, E A ^a,b  

^a De Beers Group   (South Africa)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Beach ridges; Continental margin; Quaternary; Sequence stratigraphy; Sierra Leone

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; PALEOENVIRONMENT; QUATERNARY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; STRATIGRAPHY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; SIERRA LEONE;

EID: 0032727748     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/gsjgs.156.5.0977     Document Type: Article

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