Aspects of the Cenozoic evolution of the northern Kwazulu-Natal Coastal Plain, South Africa

Bulletin of the Council for Geoscience

Volumn , Issue 132, 2002, Pages 1-115

  Wright, C I ^a  

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CENOZOIC; CLIMATE EFFECT; COASTAL EVOLUTION; COASTAL PLAIN; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENT BUDGET; TECTONICS;

AFRICA; KWAZULU-NATAL; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

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