Christmas Island lagoonal lakes, models for the deposition of carbonate-evaporite-organic laminated sediments

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 140, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 177-189

  Trichet, J ^a   Defarge C ^a   Tribble, J ^b   Tribble, G ^b   Sansone, F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ D'ORLÉANS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbonate evaporite organic laminated sediments; Christmas island atoll; Climatic control of sedimentation; Kiritimati; Lagoonal lakes; Organomineralization

Indexed keywords

ATOLL; CARBONATE; EVAPORITE; LAGOON; SEDIMENTATION;

KIRIBATI;

EID: 0035049839     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0037-0738(00)00177-9     Document Type: Article

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