Large sea, small tides: The Late Carboniferous seaway of NW Europe

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 162, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 417-420

  Wells, Martin R ^a   Allison, Peter A ^a   Piggott, Matthew D ^a   Pain, Christopher C ^a   Hampson, Gary J ^a   de Oliveira, Cassiano R E ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Late Carboniferous; Modelling; NW Europe; Tides

Indexed keywords

CARBONIFEROUS; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; TIDE;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; WORLD;

CARBONIFEROUS;

EID: 18844408939     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-764904-128     Document Type: Article

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