Plio-Pleistocene cyclothems from Wanganui Basin, New Zealand: Type locality for an astrochronologic time-scale, or template for recognizing ancient glacio-eustasy?

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 357, Issue 1757, 1999, Pages 1861-1872

  Carter, R M ^a   Abbott, S T ^a   Naish, T R ^a,b  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Cyclic sediments; Cyclothem; Eustasy; Sea level change; Sequence; Wanganui Basin

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347599329     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1999.0404     Document Type: Article

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