The flooding of Sundaland during the last deglaciation: Imprints in hemipelagic sediments from the southern South China Sea

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 171, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 661-671

  Pelejero, Carles ^a   Kienast, Markus ^b,c   Wang, Luejiang ^b,d   Grimalt, Joan O ^a  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d Grad Sch Environ Earth Sci H   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biomakers; Eustacy; Sea level changes; South China Sea

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKER; DEGLACIATION; EUSTACY; QUATERNARY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 0033618955     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(99)00178-8     Document Type: Article

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