Timing of the last sequence boundary in a fluvial setting near the highstand shoreline - Insights from optical dating

Geology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 279-282

  Tornqvist, Torbjorn E ^a   Wallinga, Jakob ^b   Busschers, Freek S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Optical dating; Quaternary; Rhine Meuse system; Sequence stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL DATING;

DEPOSITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OXYGEN; SEA LEVEL;

STRATIGRAPHY;

CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; HIGHSTAND; LAST GLACIAL; OPTICAL METHOD; QUATERNARY; SEQUENCE BOUNDARY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; VALLEY FILL;

NETHERLANDS;

EID: 0037344815     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(2003)031<0279:TOTLSB>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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