Revised Upper Cenozoic stratigraphy of the Dutch sector of the North Sea Basin: Towards an integrated lithostratigraphic, seismostratigraphic and allostratigraphic approach

Geologie en Mijnbouw/Netherlands Journal of Geosciences

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 129-146

  Rijsdijk, Kenneth F ^a   Passchier, S ^a   Weerts, H J T ^a   Laban, C ^a   van Leeuwen, R J W ^a   Ebbing, J H J ^a  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Allostratigraphy; Cenozoic stratigraphy; Lithostratigraphy; North Sea Basin; Seismostratigraphy

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; STRATIGRAPHY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 23744459286     PISSN: 00167746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016774600023015     Document Type: Article

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