Late Holocene stratigraphic evolution of a back-barrier tidal basin in the East Frisian Wadden Sea, southern North Sea: Transgressive deposition and its preservation potential

Facies

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 329-340

  Chang, Tae Soo ^a   Flemming, Burghard W ^a   Tilch, Elke ^a   Bartholomä, Alexander ^a   Wöstmann, Ralf ^b  

^a SENCKENBERG DEUTSCHES ENTOMOLOGISCHES INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b Forschungszentrum Terramare   (Germany)

Author keywords

Back barrier tidal deposit; East Frisian Wadden Sea; Facies analysis; Holocene; Preservation potential; Stratigraphy; Transgression

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; FACIES ANALYSIS; HOLOCENE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TRANSGRESSION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; EAST FRISIAN ISLANDS; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRISIAN ISLANDS; NORTH SEA; WADDEN SEA;

EID: 33746910150     PISSN: 01729179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10347-006-0080-2     Document Type: Article

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