Development of a prograding carbonate wedge during sea level fall: Lower Pleistocene of Rhodes, Greece

Sedimentology

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 559-576

  Hansen, Kim Stem ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Giant foresets; Pleistocene; Rhodes; Sequence stratigraphy; Temperate carbonates

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE PLATFORM; PLEISTOCENE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

GREECE;

EID: 0032822078     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3091.1999.00238.x     Document Type: Article

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