Mud prone entrenched deep-water slope channel complexes from the Eocene of eastern Turkey

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 244, Issue , 2005, Pages 155-180

  Cronin, Bryan T ^a   Çelik, Hasan ^b   Hurst, Andrew ^a   Turkmen, Ibrahim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; EOCENE; SUBMARINE SLOPE;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; TURKEY; WORLD;

EID: 23844541063     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2005.244.01.10     Document Type: Article

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