High-arctic fan delta recording deglaciation and environment disequilibrium

Sedimentology

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 553-589

  Lönne, Ida ^a   Nemec, W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Facies analysis; Fjord; Forced regression; Gilbert type fan delta; Holocene; Svalbard; Transgression

Indexed keywords

COASTAL SEDIMENT; DEGLACIATION; FAN DELTA; FJORD; HOLOCENE; SEDIMENTATION; TRANSGRESSION;

ARCTIC; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 2942588960     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2004.00636.x     Document Type: Article

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