A semi-quantitative method for the reconstruction of eustatic sea level history from seismic profiles and its application to the southern South China Sea

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 223, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 443-459

  Zhong, Guangfa ^a   Geng, Jianhua ^a   Wong, How Kin ^b   Ma, Zaitian ^a   Wu, Nengyou ^c  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c GUANGZHOU MARINE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (China)

Author keywords

Eustatic sea level change; Plio Pleistocene; Seismic stratigraphy; Sunda Shelf

Indexed keywords

EUSTACY; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; QUATERNARY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 3042814791     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2004.04.039     Document Type: Article

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