The nature of deep-marine sedimentation and palaeocurrent trends as evidence of Pindos foreland basin fill conditions

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Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 252-256

  Avramidis, Pavlos ^a   Zelilidis, Abraham ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

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EID: 0035541716     PISSN: 07053797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18814/epiiugs/2001/v24i4/005     Document Type: Article

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