Sedimentary facies and depositional history of the mid-Carboniferous Minkinfjellet Formation, Central Spitsbergen, Svalbard

Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 299-318

  Eliassen, Arild ^a,b   Talbot, Michael R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b STATOIL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE SEDIMENT; CARBONIFEROUS; CLASTIC SEDIMENT; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FORMATION MECHANISM; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENTARY PETROLOGY; TIDAL CURRENT;

ARCTIC; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 27844434570     PISSN: 0029196X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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