Sea floor spreading recorded by drowning events of Cenozoic carbonate platforms in the South China Sea

Scientia Geologica Sinica

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 405-414

  Lü, Bingquan ^a   Xu, Guoqiang ^a   Wang, Honggang ^a   Zhao, Huimin ^a  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Drowning events; Sea floor spreading; The carbonate platforms; The South China Sea

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE PLATFORM; CENOZOIC; SEAFLOOR SPREADING;

SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 0038610802     PISSN: 05635020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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