Stacked fluvial and tide-dominated estuarine deposits in high-frequency (fourth-order) sequences of the Eocene Central Basin, Spitsbergen

Sedimentology

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 391-428

  Plink Björklund, Piret ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Coastal plain; Estuarine; Fluvial; Incised valleys; Sediment partitioning; Tide dominated

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; EOCENE; ESTUARINE SEDIMENT; INCISED VALLEY; SYSTEMS TRACT; TRANSGRESSION-REGRESSION CYCLE;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN; WORLD;

EID: 17444403184     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2005.00703.x     Document Type: Article

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