Controls on grain-size patterns in periplatform carbonates: Marginal setting versus glacio-eustacy

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 175, Issue 1-4 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 99-113

  Rendle Buhring R H ^a   Reijmer, J J G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bahamas; Carbonates; Grain size; Platform margin; Pleistocene sea level

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE PLATFORM; GRAIN SIZE; PLEISTOCENE; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTATION;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BAHAMAS; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 16844387412     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2004.12.025     Document Type: Article

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