Stratigraphic architecture of the Upper Cretaceous and Cenozoic along the southern border of the North Sea Basin in Belgium

Geologie en Mijnbouw/Netherlands Journal of Geosciences

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 155-171

  Vandenberghe, Noel ^a   Van Simaeys, S ^a   Steurbaut, E ^a,b   Jagt, J W M ^c   Felder, P J ^c  

^a Historical Geology   (Belgium)

^b ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^c NATUURHISTORISCH MUSEUM MAASTRICHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cenozoic; Late Cretaceous; North Sea Basin; Sequence stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; CRETACEOUS; EUSTACY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TRANSGRESSION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 11844257553     PISSN: 00167746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016774600020229     Document Type: Article

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