Broad region of no sediment in the southwest Pacific Basin

Geology

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 873-876

  Rea, David K ^a   Lyle, Mitchell W ^b   Liberty, Lee M ^b   Hovan, Steven A ^c   Bolyn, Matthew P ^c   Gleason, James D ^a   Hendy, Ingrid L ^a   Latimer, Jennifer C ^a   Murphy, Brandi M ^b   Owen, Robert M ^a   Paul, Christopher F ^b   Rea, Thomas H C ^d   Stancin, Andrea M ^a   Thomas, Deborah J ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d Texas A and M University ^*  (United States)

^e TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Deep sea sedimentation; Late Cretaceous; Paleogene; Peleoceanography; South Pacific Ocean

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTIVITY; DEEP-SEA SEDIMENTATION; SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN;

HYDROGEOLOGY;

CRETACEOUS; DEEP-SEA SEDIMENT; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTHWEST);

EID: 33750057341     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G22864.1     Document Type: Article

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