A note on foraminifera, grain size and clay mineralogy of tsunami sediments from Karaikal-Nagore-Nagapattinam beaches, southeast Coast of India

Journal of the Geological Society of India

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 70-74

  Satyanarayana, K ^a   Nallapa Reddy, A ^a   Jaiprakash, B C ^a   Chidambaram, L ^a   Srivastava, Shekhar ^a   Bharktya, D K ^a  

^a ONGC   (India)

Author keywords

Beaches; Clay minerals; Foraminifera; Tamil Nadu coast; Tsunami

Indexed keywords

CLAY MINERAL; FORAMINIFERA; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; GRAIN SIZE; LITHOLOGY; MARINE SEDIMENT; TSUNAMI;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

AMMONIA (FORAMINIFERAN); ASTEROROTALIA; FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 33847099950     PISSN: 00167622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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