Onshore-offshore trends in community structural attributes: Death assemblages from the shallow continental shelf of Texas

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 717-756

  Staff, George M ^a   Powell, Eric N ^b  

^a AUSTIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTINENTAL SHELF; PALEOECOLOGY; THANATOCOENOSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; TEXAS SHELF;

EID: 0033135891     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0278-4343(98)00108-3     Document Type: Article

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