Diagnostic criteria for reconstruction of tidal continental shelf regimes: Changing the paradigm

Marine Geology

Volumn 191, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 95-117

  Jago, C F ^a   Jones, S E ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biogeochemical flux; Fine sediments; Tidal shelf deposits

Indexed keywords

QUARTERNARY SHELF DEPOSITS; TIDAL CONTINENTAL SHELF REGIMES;

CARBON; ECOLOGY; FLUXES; NUMERICAL METHODS; OXYGEN; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); SEDIMENTS; STRATIGRAPHY; TIDES; TURBULENCE;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CONTINENTAL SHELF; FINE GRAINED SEDIMENT; QUATERNARY; SHELF SEDIMENT;

EID: 0037202562     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-3227(02)00527-3     Document Type: Article

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