Tectono-sedimentary controls on Cretaceous black shale deposition along the opening Equatorial Atlantic Gateway (ODP Leg 159)

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 153, Issue , 1999, Pages 241-265

  Wagner, Thomas ^a   Pletsch, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLACK SHALE; CRETACEOUS; DEEP SEA; MARINE SEDIMENT; SEDIMENTATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033402814     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.153.01.15     Document Type: Article

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