STRATAFORM: Overview of its design and synthesis of its results

Marine Geology

Volumn 154, Issue 1-4, 1999, Pages 3-12

  Nittrouer, Charles A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Continental margins; Stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; RESEARCH PROGRAM; SEDIMENTATION; SHELF SEDIMENT; STRATIGRAPHY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033514323     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-3227(98)00128-5     Document Type: Article

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